How to get around a maximum email size limit.

[Anon Anon]

$2.99 for 50gb of storage on scale ways per month. Seems easy to me...?

On Sep 12, 2016 7:22 PM, "David Schwartz" <newsletters at thetoolwiz.com>
wrote:

> I am a photographer and the images I send my clients
>>>
>>
> Sound like this is a business endeavor for you. You should have the common
> sense to pay for services that complement your business and make life
> easier FOR YOUR CLIENTS!
>
> Email is absolutely the WRONG MEDIA to use for shipping large files. And
> it would make life MISERABLE on your clients!
>
> Why? Because most hosted mailboxes (not things like GMail) are limited to
> 250MB in size, unless explicitly changed.
>
> Think … Microsoft Exchange Server, which is extremel common for lots of
> businesses. Even Linux servers running common email services often set up
> their default mailbox size to 250MB.
>
> The fact is, you have no idea how much storage any client’s mailbox might
> have in it. Like voicemail, lots of people don’t bother deleting stuff
> until someone tells them they got an email bounced back saying their
> mailbox is full. Shoving a bunch of humonguous files at them is a surefire
> way to piss them off.
>
>
> The whole world is moving to cloud storage. There’s a reason: you don’t
> have to be responsible for (managing) the hosting!
>
> Maybe this article will help:
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/whats-the-best-cloud-storage-for-you/
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> One more that I’d suggest if you want to host something at your home or
> office:
>
> http://tonido.com
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>
> The only problem with hosting something like Tonido at home is that, while
> the time to upload a gig or two of data to the device is fairly fast FOR
> YOU over your local network, anybody OUTSIDE of your local network will
> have to suffer through whatever your ISP’s upload throttle is set to —
> 10-20 megs is “fast” for most plans these days, and will result in several
> hours per gig.
>
> Your best bet, IMHO, is to use a cloud-based service like Dropbox that
> lets you send a link to individual files or folders to your client. They
> get the benefit of full-bandwidth downloads without the penalty of having
> their mailbox “mail-bombed” by your huge payloads that might not even fit.
>
> BTW, Dropbox has a nice feature whereby if you send a link to a folder
> that contains images, they automatically set up an image browser for you!
>
> Also, the MONTHLY cost for most of these services is LESS than the cost to
> send a DVD disk via overnight mail ONCE.
>
> If you’re in this to make money, you should go with the cheapest, most
> effective option that makes your clients happy.
>
> Stuffing huge files into their mailbox might be cheap, but it’s sure not
> gonna make them happy! (And it will probalby fail more often than not,
> making them even more unhappy because of the hassle.)
>
> Shipping DVDs via overnight mail might not be an issue for your clients,
> but it sure ain’t cheap. And it’s a hassle for you.
>
> -David "The Tool Wiz" Schwartz
>
>
>
> On Sep 12, 2016, at 6:37 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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