Emailing large files

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Tom [Pepper] Willett

Contact them, of course.

: How would I find that information out?
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: "DL" wrote:
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: > The problem being?
: > Maybe your ISP has a size cap
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: > : > >I have a problem sending out files that are at least 54MB. Is there a
: > > solution?
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: >
: >
 
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VanguardLH

wdj13 said:
I have a problem sending out files that are at least 54MB. Is there a
solution?
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You really think your e-mail provider lets you send messages that large?
Is the e-mail itself that large, or is that the size of the file that
you want to attach (which will grow to 137% when it gets encoded into a
text block in a MIME part since *all* e-mails are sent as text)? You
think your recipient can actually accept e-mails that large?

E-mail is NOT a file transfer protocol. 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. Stop using
e-mail to send large files. It is rude to the recipient. Not every
recipient might want to see your video. Not every recipient has
high-speed (and really 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 or using
broadband that is a lot slower than yours to download your huge e-mail.
Stop being rude.

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 video 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)
 
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