[wellylug] email is not FTP

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 8/28/07, Anthony Walters <anto.walters at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I keep running into an issue where staff in places I work in keep trying to
> use email as FTP and sending large word and powerpoint attachments. Both the
> sending and recieving SMTP servers have to be able to deal with the large
> files and a lot of the time the sending fails. Does the list have any
> suggestions for a solution (preferably linux based and FLOSS) to this
> recurring situation?
>
> How do you deal with in in your organisation?

The easiest method is some sort of network share. You have a couple of
options. If you're mostly Windows/Linux based and all working on a
local network go with Samba. If you have MacOS clients set up
netatalk, it's faster than Samba. If you're working remotely set up
WebDAV in Apache.

All of those methods have good security and SMB and WebDAV have
built-in support in Windows to various extents.

You could also set up a web upload form, it might work a bit better
depending on how technical your users are, especially since they could
be given a link to the content at the end of the upload. I've never
gone down this route.

-- 
Phillip Hutchings
http://www.sitharus.com/