dmharris said:
It resends countlessly and never leaves my outbox unless I can catch it
taking a breath and delete it. This causes me to use yousendit.com for
larger files but it would be so much easier to use my own outlook. What
gives with this? I called my internet provider and they don't have a limit
on file size so it has to be microsoft. Surely I'm not the only one having
this problem.
Microsoft XP OS; office 2003 with all service packs updated.
Thanks!
Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) doesn't care about the size of your
e-mails. Only your actual e-mail service provider (ESP) cares about the
size of your e-mails. Your ESP establishes the maximum size for an e-mail
sent out through your account with them. So check with your ESP's quotas
regarding what they say is the largest size for a message that they will
accept from you. Since you never bothered to identify who is your actual
e-mail provider then no one that knows their quotas can tell you what they
are (although the ESP's web help pages probably mention the limit). Your
ESP may be your ISP but you didn't mention your ISP, either. It could be
someone other than your ISP which means your ISP doesn't give a gnat's fart
about quotas established by whomever is your ESP.
Also, when you attach a 1MB file to your e-mail, that does not mean your
e-mail's size grows by 1MB. All e-mail - and I mean all of it - gets
tansmitted as plain text. HTML is text with tags. RTF e-mail is text with
an attachment. All attachments are encoded into a long text string within a
MIME part in the body of your message. It all gets sent as text. Encoding
an attachment file into text means the text string that contains that
content will bloat to 137%, or more, of the original file's size. So when
you add a 1MB attachment, that will add, at least, 137MB to the current size
of your e-mail. Save a draft of your e-mail and look in the Drafts folder
in the Size column to see what is the actual size of your e-mail at its
current state. That's how big it will be as seen by your ESP.