Good email host?

[M A V I C]

So far this week I've dealt with customer service from Capital One, Audi, Dell, American Express and now... Dreamhost. They put a cap on SMTP (just under 40MB). Unfortunately, I have a client who has some stuff certified through a third party. The third party requires I email the files to them, and the files are upwards of 100MB. Now I can't send the files, and DH is saying "sorry, it's a system wide change and we can't change it for individual users."

If our email config was the same as some of the clients we host, I'd just copy their config and run our own server. But I don't want to maintain a whole mail server for just ~20 users.

I need one that will let me store 5GB+ per account, allow at least 100MB via SMTP, and has good spam filtering as well.

Suggestions?

Thanks

[jdc]

thats a 100 meg attachment?

[M A V I C]

[quote jdc]thats a 100 meg attachment?
Yeah, I need to be able to send attachments of up to around 100MB

[The UnDoug]

I'd imagine you'll find someone that'll allow it, but I would think that e-mail is *NOT* a good means of sending files of that size. I know you know this, VP, but isn't there any other way the files can be sent back and forth?

[bazookaman]

i didn't know DH allowed even 40mb.

when i have to send large files, i usually just upload them to one of my sites and send the link to the client. they just click and download.

[M A V I C]

It's a certification process and the only approved method is email.

I can go on and on about the problems with it... the but I haven't been able to change anything about it.

Anymore, 40MB isn't much. Heck, 100MB isn't much... but DH has really changed their business model since I signed up.

[Black Landlord]

Wanted to suggest fastmail but they max out at 50 MB attachments.

http://www.fastmail.net/pages/fastmail/d...ngtbl.html

[shadow]

Funny, I would define any email host that allows 100MB attachments as "bad" and "incompetent", not "good". For SMTP, 100MB is a ridiculous size. Personally, I set my domains to block anything over 5MB (in or out).

Please tell me that email is merely the selected transport and it is NOT being used as certification as the data is not encrypted nor secure. Hopefully, they are using GPG or similar before sending.

If so, no matter what is on the other end, it would be trivial to add additional transports on top of the current one. It would be pretty simple to add a sFTP server and scanning app that would sit in between the sender and the receiving SMTP server.

[M A V I C]

[quote shadow]Funny, I would define any email host that allows 100MB attachments as "bad" and "incompetent", not "good". For SMTP, 100MB is a ridiculous size. Personally, I set my domains to block anything over 5MB (in or out).
Even hotmail allowed more than 5MB 10 years ago. I think 100MB is not that big anymore.

Please tell me that email is merely the selected transport and it is NOT being used as certification as the data is not encrypted nor secure. Hopefully, they are using GPG or similar before sending.

The information doesn't need any sort of encryption.

If so, no matter what is on the other end, it would be trivial to add additional transports on top of the current one. It would be pretty simple to add a sFTP server and scanning app that would sit in between the sender and the receiving SMTP server.

I agree it wouldn't be a lot of work. But it's not my choice to make. Email is the only method the group allows.