How to send a large file by email (~50mb) with Windows/Linux/Mac?
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How to send a large file by email (~50mb) with Windows/Linux/Mac?
Hi,
Regularly one can hear this classical question:
- how to send a large file by email (~50mb)?
However, at the age of dropbox, google drive, etc, there are still few that want to use email.
Would you know a good method, with a nice howto, to allow this?
First results of "send large file by email" on google results in 'Google drive'.
Maybe you've got some howto. Ideally, I guess, portable apps might a way to think for Windows.
This issue is not SENDING a 50Mb attachment, the problem is the other side RECEIVING a 50Mb attachment.
Most (I'd even go so far as to say ALL) companies and mail services have limits to the maximum size of an attachment.
GMAIL, which many companies also use commercially, has a limit of 25Mb on a mail message size, so given encoding overheads that's realistically an ~18Mb attachment.
Actually, there's also the issue of handling the file along the way.
With an object of this size, I would use another protocol such as FTP to move the file to some location that can store it. Then, e-mail the FTP address to the recipient.
This technique also eliminates the wasteful encoding of the binary data which is necessary to transfer the data using the SMTP protocol.
Well, to keep the file size under 18Mb, you could e-mail a self downloading "archive" file. Write the download script in vb script for maximum Windows compatibility, and give it a nice user friendly file name like LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs
This issue is not SENDING a 50Mb attachment, the problem is the other side RECEIVING a 50Mb attachment.
Most (I'd even go so far as to say ALL) companies and mail services have limits to the maximum size of an attachment.
GMAIL, which many companies also use commercially, has a limit of 25Mb on a mail message size, so given encoding overheads that's realistically an ~18Mb attachment.
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Originally Posted by sundialsvcs
Actually, there's also the issue of handling the file along the way.
With an object of this size, I would use another protocol such as FTP to move the file to some location that can store it. Then, e-mail the FTP address to the recipient.
This technique also eliminates the wasteful encoding of the binary data which is necessary to transfer the data using the SMTP protocol.
It is far faster and safer to use FTP and send email the link.
Email was not designed for the transfer of large amounts of data and is extremely inefficient.
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