Returned Mail Locks up Outlook

[Phil vK]

I sent a 7MB file out to a client. Their email evidently is being sent to a
Blackberry which can't except that size file. I get a Mailer-Daemon error
message back which is 17MB! and which is locking up my Outlook. I can't get
into Outlook to delete it....every time I try, the program ends up Not
Responding and I get a perpetual hour glass. Anyone have an idea how I can
get rid of this file which starting totally anew?

 

[VanguardLH]

I sent a 7MB file out to a client. Their email evidently is being sent to a
Blackberry which can't except that size file. I get a Mailer-Daemon error
message back which is 17MB! and which is locking up my Outlook. I can't get
into Outlook to delete it....every time I try, the program ends up Not
Responding and I get a perpetual hour glass. Anyone have an idea how I can
get rid of this file which starting totally anew?

Use the webmail interface to your mailbox.

The e-mail returned probably has your original message attached and that
is why it is so huge. You sent a 7MB file. That was NOT the size of
your e-mail that you spewed out to your sending mail server. ALL e-mail
is transmitted in plain-text format. HTML is plain-text with
formatting. Sending HTML e-mails automatically means your e-mail is
twice as large (excluding attachments) because there will be an
HTML-formatted part and a plain-text part in your e-mail. Not all
e-mail clients can handle HTML so the plain-text part is included so
those recipients can read what you decided to bloat in your message that
never needed to use HTML.

Binary attachments become MIME parts in the body of your e-mail that are
encoded into text characters. Encoding into text will mushroom the size
of the content. A binary file can bloat up to 50% to 100% of its
original size when encoded into text and inserted into a MIME part in
the body of your e-mail.

E-mail was never designed to be a file transfer protocol (FTP). If you
want to give a large file to someone via e-mail, store the file
somewhere online and give the recipient a link to that file.