email video clip - How big of a file can you email?

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I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver 20MB -
My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I went to
majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program to compress my
files; although, the compression did the job and my video clip became 20MB,
email through Outlook 2003 would not deliver this big of a file. Does anyone
know why??
 
'Bjorn' wrote:
| I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver
20MB -
| My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I went to
| majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program to compress
my
| files; although, the compression did the job and my video clip became
20MB,
| email through Outlook 2003 would not deliver this big of a file. Does
anyone
| know why??
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The ISP limits the size of email. Check with Verizon for the size limit.
It will be far less than 20 MBytes.

Phil Weldon

|I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver
20MB -
| My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I went to
| majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program to compress
my
| files; although, the compression did the job and my video clip became
20MB,
| email through Outlook 2003 would not deliver this big of a file. Does
anyone
| know why??
| --
| Bjorn
 
Bjorn said:
I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver
20MB -
My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I went to
majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program to compress
my
files; although, the compression did the job and my video clip became
20MB,
email through Outlook 2003 would not deliver this big of a file. Does
anyone
know why??
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I don't think you can email a file greater than 2 GB, but that's a system
limitation, not the mail program. The real limitation is from the SMTP
server (Verizon in your case). Besides, since email from any program adds
30 to 40% to the file size when it encodes the file for mail, large files
really should be uploaded to a Web site and you just email a link to the
file.
 
Bjorn said:
I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver
20MB - My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I
went to majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program
to compress my files; although, the compression did the job and my
video clip became 20MB, email through Outlook 2003 would not deliver
this big of a file. Does anyone know why??
Click to expand...


The limit is set by your ISP (in your case, Verizon), not by your E-mail
client.

Ask Verizon what your limit is; it's almost certainly well under
20MB--perhaps 4-5MB or so.
 
Bjorn said:
I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver
20MB -
My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I went to
majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program to compress
my
files; although, the compression did the job and my video clip became
20MB,
email through Outlook 2003 would not deliver this big of a file. Does
anyone
know why??
Click to expand...

Something else to consider is the size of attachment that the recipient can
recieve

Their ISP may put limits on this, for instance, I think that Hotmail is
limited to a maximum size of 10Mb

mikew
 
Bjorn said:
I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver 20MB -
My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I went to
majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program to compress my
files; although, the compression did the job and my video clip became 20MB,
email through Outlook 2003 would not deliver this big of a file. Does anyone
know why??
Click to expand...

How big was the clip to start with? Most video files are already in a
compressed format (MPEG and avi are compressed formats). Usually zippers
cannot compress them any further - in fact sometimes they make them bigger
because the zipping process adds headers.

Many ISPs and some servers on the internet limit the size of emails they
will transmit. This is done to stop people hogging resources by sending
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 byte files. I've heard some people have problems
sending files as small as 2-3MByte by email. In such cases the best thing to
do is to host/upload the file to the web somewhere and email the recipient a
link to it. For example you could consider uploading to www.youtube.com
which has a 100MByte (5-10 mins) limit.
 
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