Our servers will allow a massive
maximum message size of 50MB.
All accounts are initially configured
with a default of 15MB 'data' per message - this
can be easily increased (or decreased) by logging
into the Control
Panel.
Due to the overhead when encoding
files to send via email (typically around 20-40%)
-
this means that a 10MB file could be as much as 14MB+
of 'data' actually sent to our servers.
Hint #1: If you do send large files
via email try to 'zip' (compress) them first - most
new computers have this functionality built in or compression
utilities are available from a number of vendors. Compressing
files has the following benefits:
- It allows you to send larger files.
- Compressed files are smaller so take less time for
you to send.
- They then transfer from our servers to the recipients
ISP quicker.
- Your recipient can then collect them in less time.
- It uses less of your monthly traffic quota.
Hint #2: There are various types of encoding methods
(UUENCODE, MIME, BinHex4 etc.) - of these UUENCODE and
MIME are the most popular. MIME is newer and generally
more efficient than UUENCODE (meaning smaller email
sizes) and is supported by most current email programs
- so if you have the choice we would recommend you use
MIME encoding.
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