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Problems sending large files

Thanks Thomas. 

I very much appreciate your taking the time to reply and helping with this. 

 Tom

<p>Thanks Thomas.  </p><p>I very much appreciate your taking the time to reply and helping with this.  </p><p> Tom </p>

I've scanned some materials that I'm trying to send by e-mail, and having problems. 

The files total about 22MB.  When I tried to send them all at once, Pegasus froze, and I couldn't get it to open again until I deleted a message advising that the e-mail failed to go through.

I tried sending the files in 4 separate messages (largest one 11MB, others between 3 and 7MB).  Pegasus sent them, but I got back a message saying they were too large to send.

 Is this a setting in Pegasus? something set up by my ISP? or a general rule for all e-mail traffic?

 Any advice about how to send files this big would be very welcome!

 Tom

<p>I've scanned some materials that I'm trying to send by e-mail, and having problems.  </p><p>The files total about 22MB.  When I tried to send them all at once, Pegasus froze, and I couldn't get it to open again until I deleted a message advising that the e-mail failed to go through.</p><p>I tried sending the files in 4 separate messages (largest one 11MB, others between 3 and 7MB).  Pegasus sent them, but I got back a message saying they were too large to send. </p><p> Is this a setting in Pegasus? something set up by my ISP? or a general rule for all e-mail traffic?</p><p> Any advice about how to send files this big would be very welcome!</p><p> Tom </p>

> Is this a setting in Pegasus? something set up by my ISP? or a general rule for all e-mail traffic?

This is a basic SMTP e-mail problem.  Each mail server is allowed to set their own limits on the size of the messages they will accept and so I generally never send anything over 2 MegaBytes without first verifying both my server and the receiving server will accept the message.   You can telnet into port 25 on any SMTP host to see what they will accept.

 Start | Run telnet bayarea.net 25

220 mail.bayarea.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:36:28 -0700 (PDT)
ehlo thomas
250-mail.bayarea.net Hello mail.tstephenson.com [209.128.94.2], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 40000000  this one accepts up to 40,000,000 bytes
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP

 > Any advice about how to send files this big would be very welcome!

Personally I put these large files up on my web server and then provide them with a link to the file via email.  There are a number of web sites out there that will provide this service either free or pretty cheap.

 

<p>> Is this a setting in Pegasus? something set up by my ISP? or a general rule for all e-mail traffic?</p><p>This is a basic SMTP e-mail problem.  Each mail server is allowed to set their own limits on the size of the messages they will accept and so I generally never send anything over 2 MegaBytes without first verifying both my server and the receiving server will accept the message.   You can telnet into port 25 on any SMTP host to see what they will accept.</p><p> Start | Run telnet bayarea.net 25</p>220 mail.bayarea.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:36:28 -0700 (PDT) ehlo thomas 250-mail.bayarea.net Hello mail.tstephenson.com [209.128.94.2], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME <b>250-SIZE 40000000</b>  this one accepts up to 40,000,000 bytes 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP<p> > Any advice about how to send files this big would be very welcome!</p><p>Personally I put these large files up on my web server and then provide them with a link to the file via email.  There are a number of web sites out there that will provide this service either free or pretty cheap.</p><p> </p>
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