Now what..

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014, Fairlight wrote:
>On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 07:29:45PM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
>> On 9/27/2014 6:23 PM, Fairlight wrote:
>> [...]
>> >Google's idea of "timely delivery" leaves a lot to be desired.  I get a lot
>> >of delays when sending from my ISP's mail server (which I know to be a
>> >lightning-fast cluster of servers) to GMail.  GMail's inbound is horribly
>> >slow at times.  I never got a bounce last night of of a mail to someone at
>> >GMail, and it still hadn't shown up after 20min.  I finally just put the
>> >file in question on a web server and pasted the URL to them in chat.
>> 
>> FYI -
>> 
>> Google's gmail will silently drop e-mails with attachments of
>> certain file types.  No bounce, no delivery, just /dev/null'ed.
>> 
>>     https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6590
>
>And therein lies the problem.  Maximum files size is 25MB, the MP3 was
>32MB.  (It was a processed version of a speech for a radio address.
>Someone recorded it and wanted me to master it for them.)

The FilePro list limits messages to 40KB.  Messages larger than
that are held for administrator approval, and a note sent to the
sender explaining this.

Some webmail clients, (e.g. horde), allow one to specify that
attachments are sent as links in the message, and automatically
upload the attachment(s) to the horde server.

It's also pretty easy to put files in Dropbox or similar cloud
services, then share them via URLs:

	https://www.dropbox.com/s/6rvfpc15dk5m26b/HawkeDL9_01.jpg?dl=0

Bill
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