file size limit

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Is there a limit to the size of a file which can be attached to an e-mail in
Outlook 2003?

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PAE
 
PAE said:
Is there a limit to the size of a file which can be attached to an
e-mail in Outlook 2003?
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Not that I'm aware. Your ISP may limit the size, however, as might the
mailbox of the recipient.
 
Thanks
I am trying to send a zipped copy of my accounting to our CPA and Outlook
hangs sending one file with an attachmend which is about 12325 kb.

A similar file for another company with a size of 9000 kb went through
immediately.
PAE
 
PAE said:
I am trying to send a zipped copy of my accounting to our CPA and Outlook
hangs sending one file with an attachmend which is about 12325 kb.

A similar file for another company with a size of 9000 kb went through
immediately.

"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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So how much quota does your e-mail provider give for YOUR mailbox? You may
be exceeding their anti-spam quota regarding the maximum size of a message,
like 10MB is as big as you can send. Remember that when you attach files
that their size will bloat by up to 30% to 50%. That is because all e-mail
gets sent as plain text so the attachment has to be encoded, and encoding
into plain-text will balloon the number of bytes needed to represent the
original contents of the attached file.

Have you asked the recipient if their mailbox quota (maximum message size)
will accommodate your 12MB e-mail (which probably balloons out to 18MB)?
Even if they can accept an e-mail that large, or larger, have you asked them
to check their Inbox to ensure they aren't a lazy user that leaves all their
junk in the Inbox which consumes their disk space quota for their mailbox?
Even if they had a 2.5GB quota, they could have so much crap left in their
Inbox that there is not enough room for your message.

Have you disabled the anti-virus program's e-mail scanning (on outbound
mails)? It is going to interrogate that huge mail before passing it on from
your e-mail client to the mail server. That adds a lot of delay for a
huge-sized message.

E-mail is not a reliable file transfer method. There is no recovery. There
is no resume. Mail servers throttle the connections to provide balanced
responsiveness to all concurrently connected users, and that means a
particular user may not get the full bandwidth of their connection to their
ISP. If the download is corrupted, and because the original back on the
server usually gets deleted after the e-mail downloads the message, the
recipient has to request the sender to resend another huge message and try
it all over again. Put the file somewhere on online storage and put a link
to it in your message. The recipient then gets a tiny e-mail and can decide
when and if to download your big file. Online storage could be:

- Disk space for a personal web page. Examples are: your personal web pages
with your ISP, Yahoo Geocities personal web pages, Yahoo Briefcase, X-Drive,
or some other freebie or paid online storage provider. Googling for '+free
+"online storage"', or other similar keywords, will present you with a huge
list of possibilities.

- Use dropload.com to deliver your notification message but the attachment
sits on their server until the recipient clicks the link to get the file.
You are trusting someone else with your file (as you do with whomever's disk
space you use for web pages or online disk storage), so you might want to
password protect the .zip file. If you use dropload.com, give the recipient
the password in a separate e-mail not delivered through dropload.com.

- Run your own FTP server, setup the firewall(s) to allow access, but lock
it down so only particular users can login to your FTP server, and shut off
the FTP server when you no longer need it to provide file transfers.
 
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