Ashley said:
I have never had a problem with sending large files, but lately they wont go.
I have Outlook 2003.
Im wondering if this is a network issue or something to do with the
server... It's been about a week now.
It's a limitation on your unidentified e-mail provider. They dictate
how large can be your outbound e-mails. Check with them regarding their
anti-abuse quotas.
E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism. It wasn't intended or
designed for that. 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 recipient's e-mail provider disk space and bandwidth. 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 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/index.php (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)
