10MB File Size Max in Emails

Paul11 · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:12

yousendit

Cosimo · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:14

shine said:
If he's willing to post it then maybe the last two aren't an issue

I suspect his clients won’t be too pleased to see download starts in 30 seconds and then wait three hours for the thing to complete.

Greebo · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:14

daz said:
Sending large email attachments is pretty annoying - I'd recommend uploading to an FTP or web server and then sending across a link with a user/password for them to access.

meghatronic said:
Fairly normal I'd say.

This. 10mb seems pretty standard and I have come across lots of companies with this as a max limit.

burns · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:19

Install an FTP server on your network and open a port on your router until the transfer is done? Could just lob filezilla server on a random machine.

DJMK4 · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:20

Most companies have a limit because otherwise people will just end up sending big file attachments which take longer to come through, and also they will use up a lot of available space on their mailboxes by keeping the attachments in the e-mail, in the inbox.

Then the admins would have the annoying job of going round having to do audits even more frequent because people are at their mailbox limit.

Westyfield2 · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:25

Large attachments are annoying, especially given how most users are normally near the limit on their Exchange mailbox quotas normally.

Surely the obvious thing to do is create an account for the client on your company's FTP site and upload it there?

shine · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:29

simulatorman said:
I suspect his clients won’t be too pleased to see download starts in 30 seconds and then wait three hours for the thing to complete.

Tell them faster downloads cost more, charge a small fortune and then courier it over?

Marky · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:33

Apparently, we are just dividing it into three different chunks and sending them through email...

I did suggest the Dropbox idea but they said it had already been done

Maccy said:
If it's that much of a hassle I could provide some space on mine for you?

Thanks for the offer anyway bud

Cosimo · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:34

shine said:
Tell them faster downloads cost more, charge a small fortune and then courier it over?

Courier a copy on CD over and let them distribute it themselves. A "cheap" and simple solution.

Antar Bolaeisk · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:43

Google Sites (<20MB)
Microsoft Skydrive (<50MB)
Dropbox (not sure)

Will all allow quick and easy uploading and sharing of files. It may not look amazingly professional but it'll work.

bledd · 1 Jun 2011 at 12:58

Use 7zip and pick the Zip format in Ultra compression (Windows etc can still open it without needing 7zip)

PDF are pretty compressible

MacRS4 · 1 Jun 2011 at 13:11

I know it's a paid service but the MobileMe shared-file thing has been a god-send for me. I've often had to send out a few hundred Mb images and stuff, and having the ability to upload and share out an explicit link to download - including password protection and expiry - has been brilliant.

10Mb restriction is fairly typical for corp email restrictions in my experience.