Re: OE won't break large files.
From: *Vanguard* (no-email_at_post-reply-in-newsgroup.invalid)
Date: 03/22/04
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:37:34 -0600
"George" said in news:OMhtnx8DEHA.240@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:
> Here's an easy one (I hope.) I sent a music file that was about 7
> meg. I selected the option for OE to break apart files larger than
> 200k. I sent it to myself and when it come into my inbox, it comes
> as a number of pieces, but as soon as all are received they get
> reassembled into one email. Works just as expected. Here's the
> problem: I sent the same file to a friend and he has 2 machines that
> are networked. On one machine, the email gets received but there is
> no "part 1" and it randomly misses some of the higher parts. The
> result is that his OE won't reassemble the parts. So, he deletes all
> that trash, and I send it again. He goes to his other machine, and
> it works just as expected. What is corrupted on his first machine?
> He ran the SFC /scannow but there's no change in the problem.
E-mail is NOT guaranteed for delivery. It can evaporate, get delayed,
and can get mangled (especially if you use RTF outside of an
Exchange/Outlook-only organization). Who knows, maybe your friend will
get those missing e-mails tomorrow. E-mail is NOT for file transfer.
FTP (file transfer protocol) is for transferring files, especially large
ones.
File transfer via e-mail is about as slow as you can get. E-mail
servers have to throttle every connection to guarantee some minimal
level of response for all of the hundreds of concurrently connected
users retrieving their messages. You won't get much bandwidth from an
e-mail server (except for maybe a private mail server that never gets
configured to throttle the bandwidth per connection). You need to get
the file on an FTP or web server for decent download speeds.
Another point is that when you attach a binary file to an e-mail, the
size of that e-mail grows much larger than the size of the attached
file. Files don't tag along as some separate attachment. They are *IN*
the body of your e-mail as ASCII text that encodes the binary equivalent
of your attached file. Text occupies more space than binary.
Your e-mail account will have a quota; i.e., the maximum amount of disk
space available. This not only applies to inbound e-mails pending
retrieval or deletion but also to your outbound e-mails. If your
mailbox has a quota of, say, 5 megabytes for disk space and you have 2
megabytes of pending e-mails that you haven't yet yanked into your
e-mail client or deleted off their server, you're left with only 3
megabytes of disk space left. Now you try to sending multiple e-mails
whose aggregate size exceeds your remaining disk quota. Could be you
got errors on sending and the messages don't get accepted by your mail
server. They might be in your e-mail client's Outbox. Might be they go
accepted but then evaporated because of errors on the server. Check how
much disk space under your maximum quota that you have remaining for use
of your mailbox.
Could be the recipient has anti-spam software and rules on one host that
aren't not running or defined on their other host. Could be they are
configured differently. Could be his mail account includes virus
scanning and it may be awhile before all the files you sent become
available. It takes time to scan files for spam and double again if
virus scanning is included. Some of the e-mails might've been ready
when he polled but the rest weren't ready at that time.
Get a freebie account somewhere that gives you personal web pages. This
gives you disk space per the quota for that web account. Geocities has
freebie web pages but, I think, they are limited to something like 10MB.
Your own ISP may provide personal web pages (and the disk space for
them) which may provide for more disk space. Then upload your file
there. Send a link to the file in your e-mail. Then your friend won't
have to waste time downloading the piecemeal e-mails after first having
to wait for them all to arrive and the download will be faster.
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