How to get around a maximum email size limit.

Jerry Snitselaar dev at snitselaar.org
Tue Sep 13 09:38:54 MST 2016


On Mon Sep 12 16, Michael wrote:
>So the only way I'm going to get the file to them is to physically mail it
>to them? I don't want to be responsible for hosting them.
>
>On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Anon Anon <lokotejones at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Email is not the correct format for files that size. Host them on an
>> external tool like a webserver or ftp server.
>>
>> On Sep 12, 2016 6:32 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I wrote this email to my email provider and would like to implore the
>>> PLUG's brain-trust if they know of a way to do this incase my provider
>>> laughs at me.
>>>
>>> Hi. I would like to discuss your limitation of only allowing an email to
>>> be 25MB. I am a photographer and the images I send my clients totals to
>>> around 127 MB. I've gotten around your limitation by sending the pictures
>>> in multiple emails. Unfortunately that is no longer going to work due to
>>> the fact that I am soon going to be producing videos for my clients. Videos
>>> , as you may well know, are  MUCH larger than photographs. The only way I
>>> see a way around the 25MB limitation is to host the videos on an external
>>> website (I'm thinking Google Drive) but I would really much rather give
>>> them what they are paying me for. As such I would like for you to increase
>>> the maximum allowed size for me.
>>>
>>> --
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>:-)~MIKE~(-:

Most photographers use an online service, something like http://www.zenfolio.com/us to host
images for 1) clients to select which ones they want and 2) clients to download or order prints.

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