Email attachment query.

[fireblake]

Does anyone know a good program that I can download to enable me to attach a video to emails?  I'm trying to send a 600mb video.

Thanks in advance,    Mickey

[Dead Eye]

Wow... 600 MB in an email? Is that even a good idea?

Would be better of uploading it to a free webhost as email isn't really the best transport medium for such a large amount of data.

In any case, most desktop email clients should handle it but it will take a very long time to upload and may not work at all if the recipients mailbox isn't large enough. It will also take forever for them to download as well I personally use Thunderbird by Mozilla to manage my various collection of email addresses (personal and business)

[andybesy]

Your ISP will limit the size of messages.

It'll typically be somewhere between 5 and 100 MB.

Note that I'm not talking mailbox storage, rather message size limit.

Even if your ISP had a big enough limit, they wouldn't be able to deliver it to the recipient's server, because that server would also have a limit.

So email is not suitable way to send a file of this size.

If you simply want to share the video upload it to youtube, you can leave it set private so it's not public.

Or if you want to share the file then upload it to a file sharing site such as dropbox or similar.

Andy

PS) I run a few mail servers, and I think the largest message I've seen a customer upload so far was just over 6GB. Yikes nice try :p

[fireblake]

Thanks for the info guys, I'll go down the Youtube road, i just thought i would be able to compress it and the recipient then expand it.


Mickey

[Buzz]

Burn to CD and send it via snail mail, no chance emailing that.

Dropbox.com is probably your best bet and it's free.

[nsr500v4]

I am with Buzz, either dropbox or google drive, simples!

[fireblake]

Thanks guys