It's all a matter of what they are willing to put up with.

As a rough estimate for dial-up download, figure about 100 KB per
minute.

In my case, I've set my OE not to download anything over 500 KB. I can
then check larger things via web mail. And if there's something over
that that I want, I temporarily disable the OE rule.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"B.W." (del xxx) wrote in message
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I think they want advice in what would be an appropriate size for them
to allow to be downloaded as they are paying for the time online to
download these emails with attachments. I thought it would have a lot
to do with their connection speed.

B.W.

" mac" wrote in message
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"B.W." (del xxx) wrote in message
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A friend of mine who is still on a dial up connection receives some
large attachments, like pps from friends and wants to limit the size
she can receive, what is considered a max size of file.



There is no max size, other than limits set by the ISP.

The favoured option is if the ISP has a web access, then set a filter
on the web site to move large messages to a created folder. Check
occasionally, download or delete as suits?

Message rules in OE can be tried, but I do not hold much hope of
success.
mac