Many email providers only accept email attachments to a specific maximum. The maximum size limitation is different for most providers and can range for a Megabyte to 20 or 25 Megabytes that are supported by Yahoo Mail and Gmail. It is therefor important to have the means to display the size of attachments in an [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Gmail Raises Attachment Limit to 25 Megabyte
Sending large attachments via email is a big no-no unless the recipient is aware of the email’s size and has given the ok. There are other means than email to send large files to recipients. It would for example be possible to upload the file to one of the myriads of file hosts that offer [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Outlook Attachment Remover Add-in
My mailbox is growing in size everyday and it’s already so huge that I cannot back it up on CD anymore. That’s a common complaint that I hear and read rather often these days. This stems from two sources. The first is that the user in question is not compressing his mail folders which saves [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Add File types to the Microsoft Outlook Attachment Manager
Microsoft Outlook categorizes mail attachments into three risk types which are high, medium and low. Outlook uses the default Microsoft configuration to determine if a file poses a high, medium or low risk when the user tries to open the attachment. The file extension .exe for instance poses a high risk while .txt does not [...]