From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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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