Send and Receive Large Email Attachments
Many people use email as a file transfer system? If they have documents, photos,
videos or music to send to a friend or colleague they simply attach it to an
email.
So what's the problem !?
Well
Email was never designed to transfer large files!
Many email providers have attachment size limits and even though they are constantly increasing they are not uniform across the Internet.
This means that your provider may allow the attachment but it may be blocked at
any other email server on the Internet on its way to its destination.
The Solution for Large File Attachments
The Solution for Large File Attachments is simply not to use email! The original
file transfer mechanism for the internet was FTP( file Transfer Protocol) but
was never adopted by "normal users" - because it was generally too difficult to use.
There are now a whole host of solutions for sending large files which are just
as easy as sending by email but do not use email for the actual transfer.
By using these mechanisms you will never need to worry again about emails being
rejected because they were too large!
How Do They Work?
Most systems involve you transferring your files onto a website (which the
provider provides) and then anyone who wants to receive the files can download
them from the website.
To send you usually select which files your would like to send out and the email
addresses of your desired recipients. The recipients receive an email with a
download link, clicking the link starts the download process.
If you are only sending photos then you may want to take a look at
Yahoo Photomail.
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