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Please give me some advise. I use 2003 Mircosoft Outlook and am having a
problem sending out attachments. If it is a simple word file, there doesn't
seem to be any problem. If I attach an image file or a picture then sometimes
it will send and other times it won't. Some of these attachments are not more
than 1 mg in size. If it does send, it usually takes forever to do the task.
It is my understanding that I should be able to send files up to 20 mg. I
can't figure out what the problem is. Is there something I can adjust in the
program to get this program up to speed?
How large an e-mail you can send is controlled by whomever is your
e-mail provider, not by what e-mail program you use. If your e-mail
provider allows you to send 20MB messages, that is the total size of the
e-mail, not the size of the file on your hard drive. ALL e-mail - and I
mean ALL e-mail - is sent as text. Attachments get encoded into MIME
parts that are text within the body of your message. That encoding from
binary to text will bloat the size of that content by 2 to 3 times its
original size. If you send e-mails using HTML format, the size of your
message will double (does not include the attachments). That is because
one MIME part will contain the HTML-formatted version and another MIME
part will contain the plain-text version of your message.
To check how large will be your e-mail, save it while composing it. Use
the File -> Save menu or hit Ctrl+S while composing your message so a
copy of it gets forced to be saved in the Drafts folder. Then go see
how big is that draft of your e-mail (add the size column to the view).
A 7MB message could push you beyond the 20MB per-message size quota.
The bigger the e-mail, the more of it there is to scan by your
anti-virus software. Disable e-mail scanning in your anti-virus
program. It is superfluous. Scanning inbound e-mails will only move
earlier the detection of an infected e-mail because later if you attempt
to save the attached malware then the on-access scanner will detect it.
Scanning of outbound e-mails is worthless. If the anti-virus program
couldn't detect the pest when it was on your hard drive then it won't
detect it when attached to an outbound e-mail. The only time outbound
scanning should be enabled is if you attach files from networked hosts
on which no anti-virus software is running.
