jani said:
)I can recieve mp3 attachments, multiple pictures, files, etc. but when I try
to send more than 3 pictures or one mp3 (9.43 to 13.0mb size), outlook stalls
and doesn't allow me to send any emails with these attachments. I can send
regular files with no problem but not these. It is frustrating, does anyone
know how I can fix this in Outlook so it will work? Thanks
And what is your e-mail provider's anti-abuse/spam quota on the maximum size
of e-mails sent through them?
Look at the Size column in Outlook in the Drafts or Outbox folder to see
what is the actual size of your e-mail. All e-mail gets sent as text.
HTML, RTF, binary attachments - doesn't matter. It all gets sent as text.
Attachments have to get encoded into long text strings inside MIME parts in
the body of your e-mail. That encoding bloats the size of the file by 137%,
or more (usually much more). So if, for example, your e-mail provider has a
maximum size of 10MB for an e-mail message sent through them, your 9MB
binary attachment along with the headers and body of your e-mail would
obviously exceed their anti-abuse quota for your personal-use account. 13MB
would definitely exceed their quota max.
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.
Do not use 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. Don't be insensitive
to recipients of your e-mails. 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 by sending small e-mails.
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.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.
