From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Or tell the people to have their clients get gmail accounts to send files to....

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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.
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> 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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