Limit on attachment size ?

[John1]

Hi,

I wonder if there is a limit on the attachment size
that you are allowed to attach to your e-mails with
the ntlworld email account ?

I'm on the cheapest of the cable services (3 x dial-up)
actually i think its a bit better than three times
but thats their claim, that its three times as fast.

I'm asking because i cannot send a 500 meg zip, and
thats the only reason i can think of.
If that is the case, then i will have to 'split' it
and send it in pieces.

Regards, John

[Chris W]

500mb by email!!!!!! no no no no no no no!!

to the site

you will find that most email service providers give people inboxes of no bigger than about 10mb. I know there are some that give large amounts, but this is not common.

Also if you are only on 150k with the upload speed it would take hours to send a file that size. My best advise is to put the file you are trying to send on cd and post it!

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[ntl customer]

Or set up an FTP server on your local machine.

Give the person you want to give the big file to a username, password and your IP address.

Then they can download it for themselves

Or download Winrar. You can then split the file up into smaller bits and then send them seperately.

500 MB

You would kill most smtp servers with that.

[Chris W]

Originally Posted by ntl customer

Or set up an FTP server on your local machine.

Give the person you want to give the big file to a username, password and your IP address.

Then they can download it for themselves

Or download Winrar. You can then split the file up into smaller bits and then send them seperately.

but again.... uploading 500mb at 64kbps will take rather a long time.... about 17hours by my calculations....

[John1]

Hi monkeybreath,

Thanks for your reply, i thought thats what it was.
So you reckon that a usual limit is around ten megs ?
As you say, posting a CD would be quicker !

However, the intended recipient is on a fast virgin
connection, maybe their limits are higher ?
I could ask someone else to send it if the fast broadband
sevices could take it ...?

If they have maybe 100 megs limit, i could send it
in pieces ... maybe ?

[Chris W]

I very much doubt that they will have a 100mb mailbox, you are going to get timeouts when you try to send things this big. Personally i never send an attachment larger than 500kb or 1mb at most. The speed of your friends broadband makes no difference to when you send it, because the fastest you can upload is 64kbps.

[John1]

well, i was thinking of asking someone else,
someone on a very fast connection,
to send it for me.

Cos it would take too long on my connection.

but i don't know if the faster connections
will take larger attachments ...

Regards, John

[Chris W]

Originally Posted by John1

well, i was thinking of asking someone else,
someone on a very fast connection,
to send it for me.

Cos it would take too long on my connection.

but i don't know if the faster connections
will take larger attachments ...

Regards, John

chances are that the SMTP servers could not deal with big emails so speed of connection won't make too much difference. uploading 500mb on a 1mb connection will still take a while, so if you set up an FTP server as suggested by ntl customer this would still take ages.

I repeat my advise from earlier in the thread... burn it onto cd and post it

Perhaps this was not made clear - You will not be able to send it by e-mail whatever the speed of the connection.

Such a huge attachment would crash most e-mail systems that tried to process it - but in most cases it would simply be rejected outright before it got that far.

[John1]

I am quite willing to send ten emails,
of about 50 megs each,
if a faster connection can take larger attachments
than the small ones i have for mine.

Even sending twenty emails would be considered,
if it were feasible.

What is not clear
is whether or not any connections
will take attachments any bigger than
my own service will take.

If other services could take larger attachments ?

If not then its down to sending it by post !

Regards, John

[Pritch]

I don't have the exact figure for NTLWorld to hand, but on most services you're talking about a limit on attachments of 4-5Mb.

[Chris W]

ok short and simple answer:

don't send any attachments by email that are bigger than 1mb, regardless of connection speed.

send the cd instead mate

[John1]

Well looks like i better post it !
Thanks to you all for your advice,
Regards, John

Originally Posted by monkeybreath

ok short and simple answer:

don't send any attachments by email that are bigger than 1mb, regardless of connection speed.

send the cd instead mate

I regularly e-mail attacements of 3 to 5 mb, sometimes slightly higher - I would say that 5mb is a reasonable limit to work to.