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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2007-05-23 11:36:40
subject: Re: Webmail file size limitation question

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Didn't realize that, guess it's the storage that's super large.

Anyway, there are places on the internet that do "file parking"
for large transfers from place to place.

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Glenn M.
"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:46546959$2{at}w3.nls.net...
> max message size in gmail is 20 mb
>
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12363&topic=1518
>
> You can send and receive messages up to 20 megabytes (MB) total (including
> attachments). If you attempt to send a message that exceeds this limit,
> the message won't be sent.
>
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:46546215$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Or tell the people to have their clients get gmail accounts to send files
>> to....
>>
>> --
>>
>> Glenn M.
>> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
>> news:46545f7a{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Mime encoding of the attachment makes it bigger.
>>>
>>> Look for some online file "parking" service where
you upload a file,
>>> provide an email address of who it's for, then when the upload is
>>> finished, that site sends an email to who the file is for with a link to
>>> download it.
>>>
>>> I've seen them, know of them, just don't know any names right off the
>>> top of my head.
>>>
>>> With SurgeMail, there is a built in function to allow remote file share
>>> like that, where you can put a file in a public or private folder, and
>>> then send someone the link to download it.  Never enabled it, or used
>>> it, but I know it's in there somewhere.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Glenn M.
>>> "Richard B."  wrote in message
>>> news:blk853l0kahenp6phpe8enoeql34lk2tgd{at}4ax.com...
>>>> We have consultants, some are much smaller firms, who use
various ISPs
>>>> to send email, like through Comcast.  I have a Comcast
account that I
>>>> use for testing on occasion if I suspect a mail problem.
>>>>
>>>> Comcast has a 10 MB attachment file size limitation.  I
find if I send
>>>> a 10.1 MB attachment,  Comcast rejects it and reports the size as
>>>> 13.41 MB.  I had to send a 7.3MB file in order to have it
sent through
>>>> Comcast, who reported the sent file as 9.85 MB.
>>>>
>>>> Are they really saying that the transmitted file size is
this large or
>>>> is something else going on?
>>>>
>>>> I get lusers calling me day after day complaining
so-and-so had their
>>>> email rejected because of file size limitations.  I can't
get them to
>>>> send me header info because they have no idea what I'm
talking about,
>>>> some can't even zip a file.  Jeese I wanna live in the box under the
>>>> bridge today!
>>>>
>>>> Before you say "ftp" that is out of my hands,
they are looking into
>>>> doing this elsewhere.  FTP will come later, right now I have to deal
>>>> with this particular hand I've been dealt.
>>>>
>>>> - Richard 
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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