zipfiles- cannot email in Outlook (not Express)

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I'm trying to email a zip file. It's 24K and it's stuck in my outbox. How
can I get it to send?
Any help would be appreciated.
 
D. G. Mullin said:
I'm trying to email a zip file. It's 24K and it's stuck in my outbox. How
can I get it to send?
Any help would be appreciated.
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In the Size column in the Outbox folder, what is the actual size of the
e-mail?
 
D. G. Mullin said:
23MB
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There's your problem. Your e-mail is too big. It is bigger than the
maximum-size-per-email quota allowed by your unidentified e-mail
provider. Delete it and create a smaller e-mail, one that is less than
the max size you are allowed to send. If you cannot delete the item:

Delete an item stuck in the Outbox folder:
- Load Outlook.
- Put Outlook in offline mode (File -> Work Offline: enable).
- Exit Outlook.
- Load Outlook in its safe mode ("outlook.exe /safe").
- Delete the stuck item in the Outbox folder.
- Put Outlook in online mode (File -> Work Offline: disable).
- Restart Outlook in its normal mode.

So why are you sending such huge e-mails to your recipients? Are you
deliberating trying to kill their e-mail account by using up their disk
quota?

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)
 
Thanks for your advice. I had put the file into a zip file (mistakenly)
assuming that it would shrink the file.
I appreciate your advice.
 
D. G. Mullin said:
I had put the file into a zip file (mistakenly) assuming that it would
shrink the file.
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Image files are already compressed. Zipping them can actually increase
their size. Since they cannot be compressed further, you add the zip
header to the output file which increases its size a little bit.
 
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