Sending an 8 meg attachment

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Gregg

I am trying to E-Mail a powerpoint file that is 8 megs in
size. I cannot get it to move out of my Outbox. I
continue to receive E-Mail okay from the server, so I
know it is not a connection problem. Is there a setting
that I need to change or something that will enable me to
send such a large file ?

Thanks.
Gregg
 
Check with your ISP or mail admin to see what your message size limit is.
Most ISPs/POP mail providers won't permit such a large attachment - even if
yours does, the recipient's may not.

Can you zip the file and make it smaller?
 
Gregg, if you're using Outlook on a corporate LAN/Exchange
server there is a good possiblity your Exchange
Administrator has configured the server to prevent
attachments beyond a set file size. This is common
practice to prevent network/email congestion. If this is
the case then you have 2 options. Sweettalk your
administartor into changing the server settings to allow
such a large file to pass or if your powers of persausion
aren't successful you might try to FTP the file to your
recepiant or to an FTP server which the recepiant has
access. I hope this helps.
 
"Gregg" said in news:[email protected]:
I am trying to E-Mail a powerpoint file that is 8 megs in
size. I cannot get it to move out of my Outbox. I
continue to receive E-Mail okay from the server, so I
know it is not a connection problem. Is there a setting
that I need to change or something that will enable me to
send such a large file ?

Thanks.
Gregg
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You cannot send a message that is larger than the remaining disk space for your mailbox. You get a quota for your mailbox, a maximum disk space allocation, and that's the largest possible message size you can send. If you have e-mail sitting in your server-side mailbox then it consumes some of that quota and you have less for the maximum size for the message you can send. Your ISP may also impose a per-message size quota (which is smaller than your mailbox quota). Although you don't mention sending the message to multiple recipients, most ISPs also impose a per-message count quota that limits the number of recipients per message which is an aggregate of the recipient counts in the To, Cc, and Bcc fields.

Note that the size of the message will mushroom. You may think you are sending only an 8MB file but it will expand when inserted into your e-mail. Attachments are a block of encoded text, and text characters consume more space than binary.

E-mail is the worst way to send large files. E-mail servers are often throttled so each connection receives a maximum bandwidth that is far smaller than the pipe to that server. That is to ensure that all those hundreds of simultaneous connections get some response and throughput. Obviously they aren't going to lockout their mail server to all their other users because you happen to download a huge message. So downloading a huge e-mail takes a lot longer than downloading the file via FTP or HTTP. E-mail is text-oriented for content and attachments will enlarge the size of a message far beyond just its size that you see as noted above. E-mail can get mangled and your huge message might not arrive, get corrupted, or screw over your recipient's mailbox. I doubt the recipient would appreciate you consuming most or all of their mailbox quota and effectively rendering dead their mailbox because it is full and cannot receive more e-mails. Put your huge attachment on a personal web page or FTP server. There are lots of freebie web pages you could use, like Geocities. Your own ISP may provide personal web pages where you get a quota for disk space so you could upload your file there. Then just provide a link to your file in your e-mail. Your recipient gets a fast download instead of wondering why their e-mail client appears to have locked up (not knowing it is spending a LONG time downloading a HUGE message), especially if that time gets doubled because they use an anti-virus scanner on inbound e-mails. They can decide if and when they download your file. And the download will be far faster than through the choked pipe from their mail server.
 
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