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Emails, how large is too large
I run the email list for a couple of real life groups.
One woman sent round (or tried to send round) a pdf, sized at 750kb, advertising an event. No rush -- she sent it on the day of the event, so it's too late to do anything about it.)
Topic totally within the scope of the group, but I think 750kb is a bit large; I say it should be either reduced (can one reduce a pdf?) or she should put it up elsewhere and send around the web address.
She's come up with some good questions, based on her own experience. But I'm not sure how common her set-up is.
So, my questions to you, especially those of you who are a) on dialup and b) not terribly techie
(I.e. similar to most of the rest of the group in question)
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PDFs are like Word docs they expand, if you going to send an email the best option is to provide a link warning the user of the size and the need for Acrobat to open the document or alternatively to compress the PDF and then send it.
PDFs can get very large very quickly. The largest accepted email is around 10MB and thats the cap most servers will drop emails that exceed this and if that mail server has a size limit its usually around the 2MB mark.
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Yahoo lets you send up two 1 gb in an e-mail (theoreticaly).
I sent once over 400kb of JPG's, but took me half an hour to upload them into the attachment.
As for the huge resolution of the digital pics, you can resize them.
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I haven't heard that myself but even if yahoo lets you send an email that size almost any other email server will drop it on receipt.
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Well, I just uploaded the attachment and sent it. I don't know if it reached it's destination.
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