Outlook 2000 sending email file size limits

[Guest]

I recently sent an email with attached jpg files totalling 7mg. A second
email has not gone through with attached mp3 and WAV files totalling 2mg. A
third email has not gone through with an attached PDF file under 1mg, nor
would it go through when I sent it as a WinZip8 file, also under 1 mg in size.

I want to know if there are limits to the size of emails that I'm sending
and if so, can I enlarge the size? Are there issues that I must know about
when trying to email different types of files?

Thank you.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I want to know if there are limits to the size of emails that I'm
sending
and if so, can I enlarge the size? Are there issues that I must know
about when trying to email different types of files?

Any size limit like that would be imposed by your or your recipient's ISP.
Since it won't go through, though, my guess is that you're scanning outgoing
mail with an antivirus program. Don't. It's a waste of time.

 

[Vanguard]

I recently sent an email with attached jpg files totalling 7mg. A second
email has not gone through with attached mp3 and WAV files totalling 2mg.
A
third email has not gone through with an attached PDF file under 1mg, nor
would it go through when I sent it as a WinZip8 file, also under 1 mg in
size.

I want to know if there are limits to the size of emails that I'm sending
and if so, can I enlarge the size? Are there issues that I must know
about
when trying to email different types of files?

Call your e-mail provider. They set the quotas.

When you attach a file, it gets bloated in size. Why? Well, *all* e-mail
gets sent as plain-text. Attachments aren't somehow floating along
separately with the e-mail. They go IN the e-mail. That means they must
get encoded into text which bloats their size. The number of bytes for an
attachment can bloat up to 30% to 50% bigger when inserted into an e-mail.
What you attach is irrelevant to your e-mail provider regarding its original
size. All they can see is the message you sent them with whatever is inside
it.