E-Mail and Xfinity Connect Help

[pmurphy513]

How large of a file can I send through email?

[reasd]

---

pmurphy513 wrote:

How large of a file can I send through email?

---

It is about 10Mb.

[Queen-Evie]

The maximum size of an e-mail cannot exceed 15MB; this includes attachments, headers, text, formatting, etc.  To avoid any sending issues, we recommend keeping e-mail attachments under 10MB total. 

http://customer.comcast.com/Pages/FAQViewer.aspx?Guid=2fcfc017-8dc5-4464-945c-fe5ec58d9d4d

[Hook1]

To send large messages

Many e-mail and news servers limit the size of the messages you can receive and send. Usually this limit is one megabyte (1 M per message, including all attached files.

With Outlook Express, you can send large messages or files to e-mail and news servers that have size limits, by breaking the messages into smaller ones. When the group of messages is received, the e-mail program combines them into one message.

1. On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
2. On either the Mail or News tab, click Properties.
3. On the Advanced tab, select the Break apart messages larger than x KB check box and then enter the maximum file size the server will allow.

[steve-baker]

---

Hook1 wrote:

To send large messages

Many e-mail and news servers limit the size of the messages you can receive and send. Usually this limit is one megabyte (1 M per message, including all attached files.

That sounds about right for newsservers, but it is definitely wrong for mailservers. Comcast, as mentioned, has a size limit of 15 MB per message (which translates to about 10 MB of binary attachments), and that's on the small side.

With Outlook Express, you can send large messages or files to e-mail and news servers that have size limits, by breaking the messages into smaller ones. When the group of messages is received, the e-mail program combines them into one message.

1. On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
2. On either the Mail or News tab, click Properties.
3. On the Advanced tab, select the Break apart messages larger than x KB check box and then enter the maximum file size the server will allow.

That's not very good general advice, most email clients don't grok that way of doing things. They just see separate emails that look like a big mess.