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TMO Quick Tip - Avoiding Email Attachment Size Limitations

by , 7:30 AM EDT, April 28th, 2006

Using your email account to exchange files with other people is a handy and easy way to get documents where they need to go, regardless of where in the world that may be. Unfortunately, most email services restrict the maximum file size of your attachments, which can be a real pain if you need to send a 12MB file and you are limited to 10MB. One way to work around the attachment size limitation is with Dropload.


Dropload handles large attachments that email servers block.

Dropload is a free Internet-based service that lets you transfer files up to 100MB in size. The service is easy to use: you create your own Dropload account, and then upload your large document. Dropload sends an email to the recipient and gives them instructions so that they can use their Web browser to download the file. Downloads are automatically deleted from the Dropload server, so you don't even have to worry about removing the file yourself.

Sure, there are plenty of other ways to get files to someone else, like FTP sites, .Mac, and the old standby of mailing a CD, but Dropload gives you a reliable way to transfer large files in a pinch.

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Close Name:Tiger Posts: 1013 Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:36 am Subject: or...

Use iChat/AIM file transfer.

It's very handy.


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Close Name:Bosco Posts: 1002 Joined: 03 Jun 2002
Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:42 am Subject: Great toilet entendre

"Dropload", "in a pinch"... You missed saying that your files just "float" on the site until they are automatically "flushed away".


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Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:56 am Subject: Re: Great toilet entendres

Bosco... your metaphors stink!


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Close Name:ireid2k Posts: 125 Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:40 am Subject: yousendit.com

Better alternative. You can pay to have 1gb of transfer size if you wish but 100gb is the free b.


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Close Name:Guest
Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:26 pm Subject: other options

how is this service compared to yousendit? has anybody tried both services?


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Close Name:Guest
Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:57 pm Subject: dropload is unstable

My experience is you can't trust dropload. One time it took ages to upload. Another time it claimed that it had sent a notification email to the receiver, but he never got it.
That's when I dropped dropload. But it's a while ago. Could be that it's more reliable today.


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Close Name:gkon Posts: 1 Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:02 pm Subject:

check goMyPlace
- unlimited data retention
- open source (GPL)
- does not require JS in the browser
- features remote access software


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