MS Outlook - Prevent users from sending large attachments

[halk]

Here's the situation:
I want to prevent MS Outlook users from sending any attached files
larger than 3 mb.

My company is in a small office environment. We have about 35 PC's
running everything from Outlook 97 to Outlook 2003.

We are using a Cobalt Qube email server, which is about five or six
years old. It does an adequate job most of the time. However, it has
limited administrative features.

Every so often, one of our sales people will send out an email with a
large attachment - 6 mb, 12 mb, yesterday it was 19 mb. It was
addressed to 12 people on staff. Needless to say it crushed our Cobalt
Qube. Email ground to a halt while everyone slowly downloaded the file.

Is there a way to go into Outlook and restrict the size of an attached
file in an outgoing email?



Thank you,

Harold Kay
Weatherbeeta USA, Inc.

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Education is the best way.
You *might* be able to code in a prompt for large messages in versions of
Outlook that would support it. An Outlook programming group is the place to
ask.