gcotterl said:
I have about 70 JPG image-files that I want to e-mail using MS Outlook 2007.
The size of each file is about 3,000 KB.
I'd prefer that each image is displayed in the e-mail's message.
What's the best way to send the files?
70 * 3MB = 210MB and then add in the size of the headers and body of your
e-mail.
So just what anti-abuse quotas has your e-mail provider established for the
maximum size of your outbound messages using their SMTP mail server? And
just what is the anti-abuse quota for the recipient's mailbox regarding the
max size of messages they can receive? I doubt you are allowed more than
10-20MB for the size of an outbound e-mail and likewise for the recipient
(or they may be even smaller). You could zip up the files into a compressed
folder to check if they gets smaller; however, jpeg image files are usually
already compressed and trying to compress them further in a .zip file often
doesn't work (and sometimes the .zip file gets larger than the .jpg you put
into it).
E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism. It wasn't intended or
designed for that. It was designed to send lots of small messages. There
is no CRC check on the file to ensure integrity. There is no resume to
re-retrieve the file if the e-mail download fails. There is no guarantee
the e-mail will arrive uncorrupted. Large e-mails can generate timeouts and
retries due to the delay when anti-virus programs interrogate their content.
Stop using e-mail to send large files. It is rude to the recipient. Not
every recipient might want your large file. Not every recipient has
high-speed broadband Internet access. Many users still use slow dial-up
access, especially if all they do is e-mail. You waste your e-mail
provider's disk space and their bandwidth to send a huge e-mail. You waste
the e-mail provider's disk space and bandwidth at the recipient's end. You
eat up the disk quota for the recipient's mailbox (which could render it
unusable so further e-mails get rejected due to a full mailbox). You
irritate users still on dial-up that have to wait eons waiting to download
your huge e-mail. Some users have usage quotas (i.e., so many bytes/month)
and you waste it with a file that they may not want. Stop being rude. Take
the large file out of the e-mail.
Save the file in online storage and send the recipient a URL link to the
file. Your e-mail remains small. It is more likely to arrive. It is more
likely to be seen. The recipient can decide whether or not and when to
download your large file. Be polite.
Your ISP probably allows many gigabytes of online storage for personal web
pages. Upload your file there and provide a URL link to it. Other methods
(of using online storage), all free, are:
http://www.adrive.com/ (50GB max quota, 2GB max file size)
http://www.driveway.com/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.filefactory.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.megashares.com/ (10GB max file size)
http://www.rapidupload.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.sendspace.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.spread-it.com/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ (1GB max file size)
http://zshare.net/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.zupload.com/ (500MB max file size)
If it is sensitive content and when storing it online in a public storage
area or to guard it against whomever operates the online storage service,
remember to encrypt it.
