"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
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> IAN GARDNER wrote:
> >
> > dear all,
> > i`m trying to send my friend an email with an attachment but his
provider
> > rejects it.
> > I winziped it up and this would not show up.
> > Any idears anyone. It is a MS word Doc with a funny picture of a Woman`s
> > Carpark!
>
> Can he/she receive other attachments you send? ie a small one? Or is
> this the only one?
>
> For example, my partners email service limits the size of an incomming
> email including attachments to 500K. I have to drive over any larger
> files to his house. He has cable also. I think they do this so folks
> dont send tons of mp3s, music videos and such over email to conserve
> email server resources and/or so their email box doesn't fill up to
> capacity.
>
> On the other hand, some ISPs limit the size on any incomming email to
> 50K. This is to
> combat the many emailing trojans out there that send a 100K or so
> attachment so your
> email box doesn't fill up to the pre-determined hard drive allowance
> with garbage so your legit text emails can still get through.
>
> The other thing is the email service most likely has a max size on the
> mailbox. Some of the free email web based services only give you 2 or 4
> meg. And some of the web-based
> email services I've used in the past you could set a max. size on the
> mail to a nice
> small size to essentially prevent any attachment from making it to your
> inbox, including
> the now very popular dozen or so 30K trojans which are making the
> rounds.
Thanks Plato,
He got one of my emails and the other one he diddn`t.
I`m playing 5 a-side football with him next week and I`ll ask him which one
he got because I forgot what he said.
Thanks Plato
--
IAN. P. GARDNER
ISLE OF WIGHT
www.gardner44.freeserve.co.uk
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