Re: Attachment size limits for Hotmail recipients
From: Papa (bikingis_at_my.fun)
Date: 04/13/04
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:00:39 -0400
Actually turned out to be 1.96 MB. Thanks you for responding, and for the
info.
"Jim Pickering" <jimp@mvps.invalid> wrote in message
news:uwg$QiaIEHA.3964@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Unless a Hotmail user pays extra for the "privilege" their Inbox at
Hotmail
> is limited to 2MB of storage, so your mail could easily fill their Inbox
and
> cause other mail to be bounced or delayed. A 1.43 MB attachment would
have
> to be encoded to plain text so it can be sent via mail and the encoding
> usually has an approximately 30 % penalty so your message above would be
> about 1.86 MB in total size, a fact you can confirm by looking at the size
> in your Sent Items folder.
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
> Please reply only to newsgroup.
>
>
> "Papa" <bikingis@my.fun> wrote in message
> news:u2UQ3WaIEHA.2164@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > What is the size limit when sending an email with attachment to a
Hotmail
> > recipient? I sent one to myself that included a 1.43 MB attachment, and
it
> > went through just fine - but I don't use Hotmail. Then I tried sending
it
> > to
> > a Hotmail user and it got bounced.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
>
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