email video clip - How big of a file can you email?

"Bjorn" <Bjorn.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver
>20MB -
> My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I went to
> majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program to compress
> my
> files; although, the compression did the job and my video clip became
> 20MB,
> email through Outlook 2003 would not deliver this big of a file. Does
> anyone
> know why??
> --
> Bjorn

I don't think you can email a file greater than 2 GB, but that's a system
limitation, not the mail program. The real limitation is from the SMTP
server (Verizon in your case). Besides, since email from any program adds
30 to 40% to the file size when it encodes the file for mail, large files
really should be uploaded to a Web site and you just email a link to the
file.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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 >> Stay informed about: email video clip - How big of a file can you email? 

Bjorn wrote:

> I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver
> 20MB - My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I
> went to majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program
> to compress my files; although, the compression did the job and my
> video clip became 20MB, email through Outlook 2003 would not deliver
> this big of a file. Does anyone know why??


The limit is set by your ISP (in your case, Verizon), not by your E-mail
client.

Ask Verizon what your limit is; it's almost certainly well under
20MB--perhaps 4-5MB or so.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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 >> Stay informed about: email video clip - How big of a file can you email? 

"Bjorn" <Bjorn.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97325E0C-C0F9-4058-ADE2-6EA89B911318@microsoft.com...
>I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver
>20MB -
> My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I went to
> majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program to compress
> my
> files; although, the compression did the job and my video clip became
> 20MB,
> email through Outlook 2003 would not deliver this big of a file. Does
> anyone
> know why??
> --
> Bjorn

Something else to consider is the size of attachment that the recipient can
recieve

Their ISP may put limits on this, for instance, I think that Hotmail is
limited to a maximum size of 10Mb

mikew
 >> Stay informed about: email video clip - How big of a file can you email? 

"Bjorn" <Bjorn RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97325E0C-C0F9-4058-ADE2-6EA89B911318@microsoft.com...
> I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver
20MB -
> My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I went to
> majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program to compress
my
> files; although, the compression did the job and my video clip became
20MB,
> email through Outlook 2003 would not deliver this big of a file. Does
anyone
> know why??

How big was the clip to start with? Most video files are already in a
compressed format (MPEG and avi are compressed formats). Usually zippers
cannot compress them any further - in fact sometimes they make them bigger
because the zipping process adds headers.

Many ISPs and some servers on the internet limit the size of emails they
will transmit. This is done to stop people hogging resources by sending
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 byte files. I've heard some people have problems
sending files as small as 2-3MByte by email. In such cases the best thing to
do is to host/upload the file to the web somewhere and email the recipient a
link to it. For example you could consider uploading to www.youtube.com
which has a 100MByte (5-10 mins) limit.
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