gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » attachment size http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:32:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Gmail raises the max attachment size to 20 megabyteshttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/24/gmail-raises-the-max-attachment-size-to-20-megabytes/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/24/gmail-raises-the-max-attachment-size-to-20-megabytes/#comments Thu, 24 May 2007 20:33:00 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/05/24/gmail-raises-the-max-attachment-size-to-20-megabytes/ You can bet that every tiny bit of new information about Google or one of their services will make headline news in a matter of minutes after it was discovered or announced. This time it was the discovery that the maximum attachment size for emails on gmail has been raised to 20 Megabytes.

While a 100% increase may seem nice it raises some questions about the usefulness of such an increase. Many mail servers will not accept emails of that size and bounce them back. It should also be noted that emails were never supposed to be used for large file transfers in the first place.

FTP and HTTP servers are the usual way of storing and offering files. I can only speak for myself but I would be very annoyed if I would find out that someone was sending me a 20 Megabyte attachment to my Gmail account. (or from his gmail account to one of my other accounts)

I don’t think that many users will notice the increase in first place and even less will really use it. It might be nice for sending someone high-res images for instance but that’s about it.

What is your stance in the matter ?

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