Microsoft Exchange will feature e-mail mute button

It'd be really great if it just plain told people to quit sending large files through email to anyone without at least zipping the damn file.

Its really old hearing complaints "my email is broken" because a message gets stuck in the outbox due to irresponsible emailing of large files.

"Hi! It looks like you're trying to top-post a reply. Rather than letting you look like a dumbass AOLer n00b, I'm going to move your reply to the bottom. Now all the random people you added to the Cc: list will know what the hell you're commenting on. Oh, and let me fix up the quoting that Outlook just fucked up by word-wrapping quoted lines in the middle without preserving the original indentation. Oh hell, nevermind, just call the person. You do remember how a goddamn telephone works, don't you? I'm going to delete your mail account and go get myself a stiff drink."

i feel your pain

IT should be glad to have the customers, and adjust the email so there is almost no restriction on email attachment size.

That old 10mb or 20mb attachment restriction, and delay in receiving and sending of emails is very annoying.

MS should have a "we guarentee to deliver it within 5 seconds" if you buy our email solution. As well as a "it will just work, 100%, easily and intuitively, guarenteed or your money back".

That's what's needed. Customer focus.

"Oo, that was a funny 80MB wmv video, I'll just send it to all of my 1000 co-workers to share the fun!"

I work in a large exhcange-supported environment with quite a high tech server farm. We are required to keep backups of every mail. Over the years those 2-5MB excel attachments add up very nicely.
Try to imagine more than a thousand users being allowed to send files larger than 10mb over a period of 5 years.

Also, read up on email specs and standards - it wasn't originally meant to be 100%, it just got inflated to that becuase it worked so well. It is called *SIMPLE* message transfer protocol, after all.

I like the new flavor much better : 5MB.

If you need to send anything larger than that, put it on the corporate disc and mail me the file path - I'm intelligent enough to go get it myself.

And if you intend to clog up my personal mail with 20MB attachments, I'll come and explain why you should not with a cluebat.

That video isn't all that funny anyway.

My mailbox is not your garbage can. Respect it.