Ian Edmont said:
Possibly the fact that there may be a limit on siaze of e-mail
attachments?!?/ Can someone please confirm.
From the Gmail Help File
"What's the maximum attachment size?
With Google Mail, you can send and receive messages up to 10 megabytes (MB)
in size. However, the precise amount allowable will depend on the
attachment.
When you add an attachment, the size of a file may increase because
transport encodings are automatically added. (Transport encodings are the
information that allows your message to be safely sent and read.)
This means that in some cases, attachments that are 6 to 10MB in size may
push the total message size above 10MB. When this happens, Google Mail
displays a warning that your message exceeds the 10MB limit. "
The user should also be aware that some content uploaded to their Gmail
account may violate the terms of use.
"Google Mail Program Policies
Updated as of June 28, 2004
To uphold the quality and reputation of Google Mail, your use of Google Mail
is subject to these program policies. If you are found to be in violation of
our policies at any time, as determined by Google in its sole discretion, we
may warn you or suspend or terminate your account.
Please note that we may change our policies at any time, and pursuant to our
Terms of Use, it is your responsibility to keep up-to-date with and adhere
to the policies posted here.
Prohibited Actions
In addition to (and/or as some examples of) the violations described in
Section 3 of the Terms of Use, users may not:
* Generate or facilitate unsolicited commercial email ("spam"). Such
activity includes, but is not limited to
o sending email in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act or any other
applicable anti-spam law
o imitating or impersonating another person or his, her or its
email address, or creating false accounts for the purpose of sending spam
o data mining any web property (including Google) to find email
addresses
o sending unauthorised mail via open, third-party servers
o sending emails to users who have requested to be removed from a
mailing list
o selling, exchanging or distributing to a third party the email
addresses of any person without such person's knowing and continued consent
to such disclosure
o sending unsolicited emails to significant numbers of email
addresses belonging to individuals and/or entities with whom you have no
preexisting relationship
* Send, upload, distribute or disseminate or offer to do the same with
respect to any unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent,
infringing, obscene, or otherwise objectionable content
* Intentionally distribute viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses,
corrupted files, hoaxes, or any other items of a destructive or deceptive
nature
* Conduct or forward pyramid schemes and the like
* Transmit content that may be harmful to minors
* Impersonate another person (via the use of an email address or
otherwise) or otherwise misrepresent yourself or the source of any email
* Illegally transmit another's intellectual property or other
proprietary information without such owner's or licensor's permission
* Use Google Mail to violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy
and publicity) of others
* Promote or encourage illegal activity
* Interfere with other Google Mail users' enjoyment of the Service
* Create multiple user accounts in connection with any violation of the
Agreement or create user accounts by automated means or under false or
fraudulent pretenses
* Sell, trade, resell or otherwise exploit for any unauthorised
commercial purpose or transfer any Google Mail account
* Modify, adapt, translate, or reverse engineer any portion of the
Google Mail Service
* Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices
contained in or on the Google Mail Service
* Reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of the
Google Mail Service
* Use the Google Mail Service in connection with illegal peer-to-peer
file sharing"
