E Mails-How Big Is Big
In today's world more people are sending Lager Emails,
and Mass Mailing- Business Pleasure - Everyone's needs are different...
A General Rule Of Thumb
A General Rule Of Thumb
What are the size limitations to sending a file? It all depends on the email platform you use.
Message size limitations for:
Gmail: 25 MB
Ymail: 25 MB
Outlook: 20 MB (for default internet email, but your company may limit sizes at the Exchange level)
So, typically if your file is in the 20+ MB range, you will need to do something about it.
Besides the annoyance of an error message and time lost working around it, there are other good reasons to shrink the size of your email messages and attachments. Those reasons include keeping inboxes clean if your Exchange server has storage problems, file and document sharing integrity, and security, just to name a few.
1. Zip It
If you need to send a really big file, or lots of little files, one neat trick is to simply compress the file. This means, you're sending the actual PDF or PSD, or whatever, but you're compressing the data so that the file size is smaller.
On a Mac or PC (the directions are roughly the same), you simply right (control) click your file and select Compress. This will create a new file on your desktop with the same name and .zip extension.
If you have several files to compress, create a folder with the files you want to zip, and then control-click and Compress.
2. Drive It
Gmail has provided its own elegant workaround for sending large files: Google Drive.
If you use Gmail, you have the option from your message window to attach a file from Drive. Instead of including the file in your email, it links to the file or folder in your Google Drive.
Make sure to adjust share settings to allow your contact access to the folder or file.
3. Drop It
Dropbox is your everything when it comes to file sharing. We keep our entire LIFE on Dropbox. You can share massive files, a folder of 1 zillion photos, movie files, anything that you can think to upload.
Dropbox i security feature that allows you to send an exploding link. This is a great way to send a file that you can't securely or practically send over email, and you don't want someone to have access to the file for more than a set amount of time.
Zip It, Drive It or Drop It (like it's hot) anytime you need to hurl a big file across the internet.
How many Yahoo emails can I send at once?
If you want to send a bulk email from Yahoo the current limit is sending to 100 addresses.
You can not have 50 or more of them going to the same domain.
Also, the maximum email and attachment size for a free Yahoo mail account is 10MB.
Maximum email size limit for Gmail, Outlook.com, etc
Find out what is the maximum email size limit for emails & file attachments sent to popular email account providers, such as Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo and others.
Why is there a maximum email size limit
Mainly for security reasons, all email server providers limit the maximum email size that an email account can receive. Otherwise, if there would be no maximum email size limit, the email server would risk to be bombarded with very large emails, causing it to cease working properly.
Some free email address providers also enforce commercial limitations on the email size: the free account gets a low maximum email size limit, but you can increase the maximum limit by upgrading to a paid account.
What happens when you hit the maximum email size limit?
Obviously, if you send an email that exceeds the maximum email size limit of the recipient’s email provider, your email will bounce off and you will receive an email error back in your mailbox. Usually, you will receive one of the following error messages:
– “Attachment size exceeds the allowable limit”;
– “552: Message size exceeds maximum permitted”;
– “System Undeliverable, message size exceeds outgoing message size limit”;
– “The size of the message you are trying to send exceeds the global size limit of the server. The message was not sent; reduce the message size and try again”.
Maximum email size limit for Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, AOL, etc
Here is the values list of the maximum email size limit for various email providers and email client applications. These email size limits usually apply on both sending and receiving emails.
EMAIL PROVIDER MAXIMUM EMAIL SIZE LIMIT
Gmail 25Mb (per email sent or received)
Outlook.com and Hotmail 10Mb (per file attachment) or 300Gb (only for files attached via SkyDrive!)
Yahoo Mail 25Mb (per email) or unlimited (only for files attached via DropBox – limited by your DropBox account size)
AOL 25Mb (per email sent or received)
Mail.com 50Mb (per attachment) and 10Mb (per file)
Zoho Mail 12Mb (per email) and 10Mb (per file)
GoDaddy Workspace 30Mb (per email) and 20Mb (per file)
EMAIL CLIENT MAXIMUM EMAIL SIZE LIMIT
Microsoft Outlook 20Mb (per attachment)
Mozilla Thunderbird unlimited
Windows Live Mail 10Gb (per email) and no more than 50Mb per file attached
Can you bypass these maximum email size limits?
Email sending limits of ISPs and other providers?
Major Internet Service Providers - Email sending limits & restrictions
This article contains information about the email sending limits and restrictions of many major email service providers. The information is intended as a guide only. Your ESP can change its outbound email policy at any time without any prior notification. It is always a good idea to contact your provider and ask about the email send rate before proceeding with a mass email campaign.
Use a mass email service, if you plan to send emails to large groups (more than 50 emails at a time).
Verizon
Send limit - no more than 100 recipients per message AND max 500 emails per hour
Other limits - max 2mb per message
Email Policy
Comcast
Send limit - no more than 100 recipients per message AND max 1000 emails per day
Other limits - max 15mb per message
Policies
EarthLink
Send limit - max 1000 emails per day
Email policy
Cablevision/Optimum
Send limit - maximum 50 emails at one time
Other limits - max 20mb per message
Email policy
Road Runner
Send limit - max 1,000 emails per day per sending IP address
Other limits - max 5mb per message
Email policy
Cox
Specific limits are not published because they vary from time to time depending on a variety of factors, but the limits are set such that a typical user should not be impacted. Cox uses other measures to control spam, including limiting the ability to send email from accounts that Cox believes are being abused, or have been compromised, for the purpose of sending spam.
Other limits - max 20mb per message
Email policy
AT&T Yahoo! (formerly SBCGlobal)
Send limit - no more than 50 recipients per message
Other limits - max 100mb per message
Charter
Send limit - maximum 50 recipients / emails per hour
Other limits - max 10mb per message
BellSouth
BellSouth does not publish a clear email send limit but their policy states "Sending mass, unsolicited e-mail by Service users is prohibited. BellSouth Internet Services reserves the right, in BellSouth’s sole discretion, to determine whether such email constitutes unsolicited messages or transmission."
Send limit - BellSouth’s sole discretion
Other limits - max 10mb per message
Email policy
Web Email Account Providers - Email sending limits & restrictions
This article contains information about the email sending limits and restrictions of many major email service providers. The information is intended as a guide only. Your ESP can change its outbound email policy at any time without any prior notification. It is always a good idea to contact your provider and ask about the email send rate before proceeding with a mass email campaign.
Rackspace
Send limit - no more than 250 recipients per message in any given period of time
Other limits - outgoing messages sent via Rackspace Mail can not exceed 20Mb per email (including attachments)
Email policy
Send limit - no more than 500 recipients per message for the web interface, or max 100 recipients when using an email client software such as Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.
Other limits - max 10Mb per message (including attachments)
Email policy
Windows Live (a.k.a. Hotmail, MSN)
Send limit - no more than 100 recipients per message AND max 300 emails per day
Other limits - max 50Mb per attachment AND max 10Gb per message (including attachments)
Email policy
Yahoo!
Send limit - no more than 100 recipients per message AND max 500 emails per day
Other limits - max 10Mb per message for free Yahoo! Mail, or 20Mb per message for Yahoo! Small Business Mail
Email policy
Lycos
Send limit - max 25 recipients per message and max 250 emails per day
Other limits - max 35Mb per message
Email policy
AOL
Send limit - no more than 100 recipients per message or 500 recipients per connection in any given period of time
Other limits - max 25Mb per messageB
