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message larger than current system limit -can i change the limit?
"...message is larger than the current system limit..." Can i change the
limit to receive larger emails? I have construction documents/plans that require more space. It is awkward to ask a client to split it up and is burdensome to them. |
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message larger than current system limit -can i change the limit?
If you are running Outlook on an Exchange email server the message size limit
is controlled by the connectors on the mail servers. If you just wanted to receive large emails you need to change the Recieve Connector maximum message size; if you want to also reply with those large attachments you will also need to increase the maximum message size for the Send Connectors. By default Outlook uses the maximum system send and receive message size limits; but, it can also set those limits lower so check for that as well. That is under the Mail Flow Setting tab of the mailbox properties, Message Size Restrictions. "Shane" wrote: "...message is larger than the current system limit..." Can i change the limit to receive larger emails? I have construction documents/plans that require more space. It is awkward to ask a client to split it up and is burdensome to them. |
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message larger than current system limit -can i change the limit?
Outlook does not have such a limit. The limit is imposed by your mail
server, whether it's POP3 or Exchange. If this is a work Exchange account that you have, the restriction is likely placed upon everyone to relieve the burden on the server. You can ask the Exchange admin or Network admin for a temporary lift of the restriction but rarely will it be lifted permanently. You will likely also find that you have a mailbox cap as well so you will need to maintain your mailbox size. If you are trying to email someone locally, that is within your company, don't. Put the documents on the network instead in a location the other person can access. Don't clutter up your mailbox AND theirs. -- Kathleen Orland "Shane" wrote in message ... "...message is larger than the current system limit..." Can i change the limit to receive larger emails? I have construction documents/plans that require more space. It is awkward to ask a client to split it up and is burdensome to them. |
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message larger than current system limit -can i change the limit?
Shane wrote:
"...message is larger than the current system limit..." Can i change the limit to receive larger emails? I have construction documents/plans that require more space. It is awkward to ask a client to split it up and is burdensome to them. Sure. Install and operate your own mail server. Be prepared to pay for a static IP address if you don't want to get blacklisted while using a dynamic IP address, and learn how to secure your mail server, and pay for anti-spam programs that work with your choice of e-mail server, and ... Do it yourself to have control. Use someone else's property and you get what they give you. E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism. It wasn't intended or designed for that. It was designed to send lots of small messages. There is no CRC check on the file to ensure integrity. There is no resume to re-retrieve the file if the e-mail download fails. There is no guarantee the e-mail will arrive uncorrupted. Large e-mails can generate timeouts and retries due to the delay when anti-virus programs interrogate their content. Do not use e-mail to send large files. It is rude to the recipient. Not every recipient might want your large file. Not every recipient has high-speed broadband Internet access. Many users still use slow dial-up access, especially if all they do is e-mail. You waste your e-mail provider's disk space and their bandwidth to send a huge e-mail. You waste the e-mail provider's disk space and bandwidth at the recipient's end. You eat up the disk quota for the recipient's mailbox (which could render it unusable so further e-mails get rejected due to a full mailbox). You irritate users still on dial-up that have to wait eons waiting to download your huge e-mail. Some users have usage quotas (i.e., so many bytes/month) and you waste it with a file that they may not want. Don't be insensitive to recipients of your e-mails. Take the large file out of the e-mail. Save the file in online storage and send the recipient a URL link to the file. Your e-mail remains small. It is more likely to arrive. It is more likely to be seen. The recipient can decide whether or not and when to download your large file. Be polite by sending small e-mails. Your ISP probably allows many gigabytes of online storage for personal web pages. Upload your file there and provide a URL link to it. Other methods (of using online storage), all free, a http://www.adrive.com/ (50GB max quota, 2GB max file size) http://www.driveway.com/ (500MB max file size) http://www.filefactory.com/ (300MB max file size) http://www.megashares.com/ (10GB max file size) http://www.sendspace.com/ (300MB max file size) http://www.spread-it.com/ (500MB max file size) http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ (1GB max file size) http://zshare.net/ (500MB max file size) http://www.zupload.com/ (500MB max file size) If it is sensitive content and when storing it online in a public storage area or to guard it against whomever operates the online storage service, remember to encrypt it. |
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