LeapFILE - Email

Survey Results: Accountants on File Transfer and Document Management

Julia Mak — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0000

A lot of the attendees from AICPA Tech+ were kind enough to take the time and filled out a survey for us during the exhibition. We wanted to utilize the opportunity we had with our community to try to gain a better understanding on what each and every user is looking for so we can continue to develop and improve.

Here are some of the results we got:

Top 5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Use Email For File Transfer (Part 3/3)

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0000

To continue from my previous posts, here are the last two reasons why email isn't the best way to send large, confidential files.

Top 5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Use Email For File Transfer (Part 2/3)

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0000

In my previous post, I suggested five reasons why email is not the best conduit for tranferring large or confidential documents. These reasons are:

Enhance Data Security with Outlook and Email Plug-ins

Alex Teu — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0000

With data privacy and security high on corporate IT's mind, every security consultant, solutions provider and blogger is coming out with a top 5 or top 10 in how to deal with this critical issue. It would not surprise me if David Letterman came out with his own Top 10 List (okay, maybe I would be a tad surprised).

Top 5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use Email For File Transfer (Part 1/3)

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0000

In today's global business environment, email may be the most critical communication tool for a company. Countless messages are fired off worldwide everyday, and while the emails containing just text usually find their destination, things aren't so certain for emails carrying attachments. File-size caps, server hiccups, spam filters – all of these can derail an email as it tries to reach its destination.

Don't Get a File Transfer Solution Lemon

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0000

A recent article was published on USA Today that covered a well-known vendor for file transfer services and also mentioned several others within this space. Obviously, I read this with great interest, but was initially dismayed that LeapFILE was not even mentioned, even though I had a quick chat with the reporter who wrote this article when he was doing his research.

What is a good size limit for Email Servers and Clients?

Thu, 07 May 2009 07:00:00 +0000

10 MB or less is generally considered a good size limit for email servers. Increasing the limit beyond this can make the server unreliable or vulnerable to attacks for the reasons listed below.

In many cases, because your email client (a program such as Outlook) does not communicate with the server about the size of the file, the whole email including the attachment will be sent, which can take a long time, and then the server will ‘bounce’ the email, sending the whole email back to you along with a message saying the email is too big to send!

Why not set my Email Server to have a Higher Limit?

Thu, 07 May 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Firstly, in order to complete a delivery, your recipient’s email server has to have the same capability to receive it. Even if you set your server to have a 20 MB limit, your 15 MB email can’t be delivered if your recipient has a server with a size limit of 10 MB.

Secondly, big size files may crash the email server. Size limits are also needed to avoid malicious users sending very large files in order to crash the server. They also reduce the amount of disk space needed to store the email messages on the server.

Bounced Email Because of Size Limit?

Thu, 07 May 2009 07:00:00 +0000

When you send an email with an attachment, there are two types of size limit that can cause your email to bounce back as “undeliverable” – the message size limit of both the sender’s and recipient’s email servers, and the size limit of the recipient’s inbox.