Receive large file??

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How do I receive a larger file than 2 megs -as mentioned in the Outlook 2003
Have on at the office I want to send to Outlook 2003 at home that is 4 megs
Thanks !!
 
This is up to your ISP or whomever runs your mail server(s).
Also, might want to try zipping the file to see if you can compress it.
 
Receiving a large file in Outlook is going to really depend on the two mail
servers the message has to pass through. You might want to inquire with the
support staff @ work and @ isp to see what is the largest size a message can
be for sending/receiving. If they respond with 1 meg, then you need to
split the file you want to send into 750KB pieces.
 
This is a very grey area. SMTP isn't designed for large attachments but
how in the hell are most folk supposed to send uncompressible pictures
to each other when they probably don't know what a ftp server is or have
access to one?

Now that many have B/B, therefore larger files to share, the ability to
send such attachments is very hit & miss & difficult to know in advance
if sending by email will be successful or not. I've sent holiday snaps
by email to have the recipient email back saying that all the
attachments have been stripped out. We are stuck firmly in the past here
:(

neo [mvp outlook] - typed:
 
Try using www.shutterfly.com or some other webserver thing you can upload
pics to, and send people links. Most will appreciate not waiting ages for a
huge message to download, broadband or not.

Lemon said:
This is a very grey area. SMTP isn't designed for large attachments
but how in the hell are most folk supposed to send uncompressible
pictures to each other when they probably don't know what a ftp
server is or have access to one?

Now that many have B/B, therefore larger files to share, the ability
to send such attachments is very hit & miss & difficult to know in
advance if sending by email will be successful or not. I've sent
holiday snaps by email to have the recipient email back saying that
all the attachments have been stripped out. We are stuck firmly in
the past here :(

neo [mvp outlook] - typed:
Receiving a large file in Outlook is going to really depend on the
two mail servers the message has to pass through. You might want to
inquire with the support staff @ work and @ isp to see what is the
largest size a message can be for sending/receiving. If they respond
with 1 meg, then you need to split the file you want to send into
750KB pieces.
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Thanks - it's built into PSP8. What about other file types? The point
I'm making is that emailing such attachments doesn't require running a
server & simplifies firewall rules. Uploading to a site is not my 1st
choice for convenience if not security. Whichever method used, the files
are going to be stored somewhere, I'm sure admins would prefer it not to
be on a SMTP server.

In this day & age it just strikes me how difficult it is to transfer
large files easily. Other posters have already shown the need for a
selected group to be able to do this within an organisation but can then
be dependent on the recipient's ISP/sysadmin policy.
 
Sorry, I'm not following - don't know what PSP8 is. And re other file types,
there are plenty of other web upload options out there.

E-mail was just not designed for file transfer....and if ISPs are limiting
size, I don't see what you can do.

Files e-mailed are not stored on any mail server once they're downloaded by
the recipient, btw.

Lemon said:
Thanks - it's built into PSP8. What about other file types? The point
I'm making is that emailing such attachments doesn't require running a
server & simplifies firewall rules. Uploading to a site is not my 1st
choice for convenience if not security. Whichever method used, the
files are going to be stored somewhere, I'm sure admins would prefer
it not to be on a SMTP server.

In this day & age it just strikes me how difficult it is to transfer
large files easily. Other posters have already shown the need for a
selected group to be able to do this within an organisation but can
then be dependent on the recipient's ISP/sysadmin policy.

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] - typed:
Try using www.shutterfly.com or some other webserver thing you can
upload pics to, and send people links. Most will appreciate not
waiting ages for a huge message to download, broadband or not.
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PSP8 = Paint Shop Pro8. Yes, an email message will be stored along with
its attachments until its d/l'd which may be a day, 2 weeks.... There
are other methods of sending larger files but are not anything like as
convenient as email.

I would bet most email users aren't aware of attachment size limits
until they have problems. What I'm saying is that the limitations of
email attachment size wasn't really that much of an issue with dialup
but with B/B becoming the norm, it would be nice if technology caught
up. I don't know the max sizes of files transferred via instant
messaging or P2P s/w as I use neither. It strikes me as odd that people
resort to mailing a CD to someone with say 20MB of files on it.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
 
Many sites are raising the email size limit - in many cases it's 5 or 10
megs. if yours still has a small limit, speak with your isp - if on one
complains they'll never raise it.

The bigger problem is not zipping attachments or sending full high res
pictures from cameras when a smaller image would suffice.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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Lemon Jelly said:
PSP8 = Paint Shop Pro8. Yes, an email message will be stored along with
its attachments until its d/l'd which may be a day, 2 weeks.... There
are other methods of sending larger files but are not anything like as
convenient as email.

I would bet most email users aren't aware of attachment size limits
until they have problems. What I'm saying is that the limitations of
email attachment size wasn't really that much of an issue with dialup
but with B/B becoming the norm, it would be nice if technology caught
up. I don't know the max sizes of files transferred via instant
messaging or P2P s/w as I use neither. It strikes me as odd that people
resort to mailing a CD to someone with say 20MB of files on it.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
Sorry, I'm not following - don't know what PSP8 is. And re other file types,
there are plenty of other web upload options out there.

E-mail was just not designed for file transfer....and if ISPs are limiting
size, I don't see what you can do.

Files e-mailed are not stored on any mail server once they're downloaded by
the recipient, btw.
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