Your ISP has email accounts for its subscribers. Download capacity and storage space varies from provider to provider, but extra can be purchased for an additional monthly fee.

Just because an e-mail account allows for attachments larger than 10 meg does not guarantee that the recipients e-mail account will allow receiving those large files.

"Your ISP has email accounts for its subscribers"
I'm not currently subscribed to any ISP


As for emails not accepting more than 10 megs...The few places that I do email more than 10 megs it seems to work (tested it with someone else's email)

Thanks

I'm not currently subscribed to any ISP

Then how do you access the internet?

j razz

If you were sending something to me, I'd appreciate it more if you would upload the large file to your website and then just send me a LINK to it. Then I can download it when *I* am ready to download it - not necessarily when you send it.

For example, perhaps I was doing one last quick check before shutting down the system and walking out the door and that's when your large e-mail happened to hit. I might be delayed several minutes waiting on that one e-mail. Send me a link and *I* can determine if I'm ready to spend the time to download a large file.

By doing it this way, you've also eliminated all issues with file length.

I'm with jedTV. It's much easier for BOTH parties to email the link.

If you don't have an ISP are you using some sort of public terminal?
Then there may be no webspace to upload to. I believe there are free webspaces for this. Boxnet? I can't recall right now...

the last thing i want is ANYONE sending me a large file by email!!!!

i regularly check my isp's inbox directly when a download (email) seems to be taking a long time. from there i get the chance to stop AND delete it

i would NEVER dream of sending anything over 8mb to an email address (for a start many will reject emails of 10mb>).

always use a link, that way the recipient can download at their convenience and not have their email clogged up....

Use yousendit.com. It allows you to upload up to 100meg file for free and the link is emailed to whomever you want.

I use it all the time. there is a premium service, but the free works very well.

Dave T2

I deleted my message because Dave beat me to it (the response). I use YouSendIt to upload video so often that I subscribed to the premium service.

Thanks all for the replies, but I think I haven't explained in detail...

First off, I don't intend on sending large files and I seldom do...but at times I found myself that I had to send a 13 meg file and I couldn't..so having a slightly larger limit of 20 megs is prefered. I don't think I would ever send a file larger than 20 megs.

Secondly, my internet access comes from my second job.,,I;ve gone a google search and found a few providers out there but not sure if they are good.

I just want an email address that is not @hotmail or @gmail or @yahoo. That's it.

Thanks

i wouldn't accept a 13mb file. you really need to use link to a (free) file hosting service.

this is not implying YOU can't happily receive 13mb files, but are you certain your recipient can?

i do a lot of work with government depts, and i've found many of them a. won't accept external attachments, b. have a download limit (5mb)*, and many of these people's home connections are via their work, or i'basc' adsl @ 512, so by sending them a large email i'm simply wasting my time.

*in their mailbox -using a link gets round this quite simply...

I can understand not wanting a Hotmail or Yahoo e-mail address, but I don't think Gmail has the same sort of "low-rent" reputation to it.

John, I have accounts on all 3 and Gmail is the absolute worst for spam.

Mike

I'll say that my gmail account shows more spam than my hotmail & yahoo addresses by a factor of 250*. However, my gmail account shows less spam in my inbox than any other account i have. Whether that's due to gmail having better filtering, or because the other providers drop a lot of it rather than putting it in my spam folder, i can't say. However, that does mean that i'm bothered by spam less with gmail than with any of the others, even though it appears to receive way more.



*Yes, really.

That's weird, I get virtually no spam through my Gmail account.

By spam, I mean what ends up in the spam filter box.
Yahoo and Hotmail filtered spam I can count on one hand in a year.
Gmail is averaging 25 or more every week.
Spam messages that make it through to my inbox is virtually nil with all of them so I guess that's a good thing.

Mike

the address's u mentioned (hotmail, yahoo, gmail) are all used by "professional" editors, etc, along with mac.com, aol.com, googlemail.com, you name it.

there is no point in imagining people will doubt your abilities because of an email address... they will still do business with you.

just find the email service that provides the larger sized limit (or whatever other else) you want and go. (i'm more dubious of the statement you'll never need more than 20 megs!)

For someone who only has internet access at work, you "do" seem a little picky.

1) Get a home internet account. 1.5 MBs connection is about $20/mo.
2) Register a domain name. Then you can have the name of your choosing after the @ in your emails. You could even name the domain after yourself. Wouldn't that be cool. Registration is about $25 a year.

Done.

Julius,

I pay USD $2 a month to my hosting co. for my own domain-email (happens to be the same as my username here, just with a "net). I don't have any sending or receiving limit as far as I know, but then I don't like to send or receive large files either. When I share, I upload to my site and let people download via link (more courteous IMO). Even if you don't have your own site, as stated by others above, you can find free services for temporary hosting/pickup.

As to spam, the only stuff I get is usually my fault -- i.e. not using my alternate/spam-catcher yahoo one (what I use whenever I open an account or sign up anywhere that I'm not sure of or is new). Once I see something is a no-spammer, I change the email notification in an account or sign-up to go to my own soniclight.net one.

I also have a gmail. Neither yahoo or gmail have deluged me with spam. Granted I probably have far less online email activity than most of you.

I'm no expert, but as I understand it there are other considerations than just the limits on indivual accounts for sending and receiving large files.

The devices/programs that route your e-Mail thru the 'net have limits as well .. or at least they used to.

Julius, I think I did understand. And I still stand by my statement - If it's over a meg or two, I'd upload it to my website and send a LINK. NOONE wants to receive a 13 meg e-mail.

NOONE wants to receive a 13 meg e-mail.

Well .. those of us with *really* fast internet (for instance FIOS) wouldn't mind all that much ... so long as it was something I asked for.