taking too long to send pictures

[Guest]

It is suddenly taking a very long time to send pictures. Text messages are
okay.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

What version of Outlook are you using? What kind of pictures? How large are
these pictures?

 

[Vanguard]

in message

It is suddenly taking a very long time to send pictures. Text messages
are
okay.

Stop sending really big pictures. Binary attachments will mushroom in
size because they must be encoded into text characters to encapsulate in
a MIME part in your message. ALL e-mails get sent as plain-text, so
HTML (which is text tags) and attachments are in plain-text, and your
e-mail client reconstructs or renders them. Encoding a binary into text
results in the content getting enlarge by 50% to 100% (i.e., it will
increase from 1.5 to twice its original size).

Also, if you have e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program, and if
outbound mails are scanned, then it takes time for the AV program to
scan really big e-mails (and they'll be big when you attach pictures).
You might want to disable e-mail scanning in your anti-virus,
anti-spyware, and other anti-malware software.

 

[Guest]

I am using Outlook 2003, just purchased in past year or so. The picture I'm
sampling is 2mg. It takes about 1.5 minutes to transmit this picture. It
seems it didn't take this long. Would this be the normal transmission time?

Ed
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am using Outlook 2003, just purchased in past year or so. The
picture I'm sampling is 2mg. It takes about 1.5 minutes to transmit
this picture. It seems it didn't take this long. Would this be the
normal transmission time?

First, you can't send binary information in email over the internet. E-mail
is strictly a text medium. In order to send an image, the mail client
encodes it into text and then sends the text. The process of encoding can
greatly expand the size of the data being sent. a 2 MB image might be 2.5-3
MB in size after encoding. Now, 2.5 MB is about 25 Mb. A transmit time of
90 seconds means that your bandwidth is about 278K to 333 K bps. I can
easily see a typical uplink running at that speed, although I'd think 500 to
700 K bps would be more typical. Since you give no indication of what type
of internet connection you use, who can tell what you should be seeing?