"Robyn Voss" said in
I am using XP Outlook and I am having trouble sending large >10Mb
emails. We have broadband internet connection, so I didn't think
sending large emails would be a problem - until now. I can't find
anywhere to change the settings for this like there is in Outlook
Express. I would appreciate any help with this. Thanks in advance.
ISPs usually have quotas. One is the disk space you get allocated for
storing e-mails on their server, something like 2MB to 25MB. Other
quotas (some optional) are: montly bandwidth (how many bytes you can
send in a month), number of aggregate recipients (in To, Cc, and Bcc),
and per-message size. Sounds like you have hit your per-message quota
or maybe your bandwidth quota.
E-mail is NOT a file transfer protocol. File transfers via e-mail will
incur problems. The size of your e-mail will grow substantially larger
than just the size of your attachment. Attachments get inserted as text
in an encoded section in your e-mail, and text takes more space than
binary. The larger the size of the attachment, the less reliable is its
delivery. You incur a penalty on the recipient to get your e-mail even
if they don't want your attachment (most users download the entire
message rather than just headers). E-mail servers have to throttle the
bandwidth to each connection to ensure all those hundreds of concurrent
users get a minimal level of response and throughput. That means data
gets transferred slower because it is being deliberately choked.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is designed for file transfers. Upload
your 10MB file to a web site. Geocities (Yahoo) and others provide
freebie web sites for personal use. I don't remember what disk space is
provided in a Geocities personal web site. Your ISP may also provide
web page space. Find where you can upload your huge file(s) to a web
site (you don't need any web pages, just upload the file into a
subdirectory) and provide a link to your file from there. Then the
e-mail download to the recipient is fast because it only has your
message. The recipient gets to decide if and when they download your
huge file. Attaching huge files to e-mails is considered rude, mostly
to the recipient.
