Many email services have a limitation on the size of outgoing and incoming email message. Some have a 10 MB limitation. Other services have up to 50 MB limitations. But most services don’t allow more than 50 MB. Consequently, if you want to send an attached file to somebody, you can do so as long as the size of the attached file is within the limitation of your email service. (The photo above is 109 MB for mural size.)
The Recipient
But what about the limitation on the recipient’s email service? That’s difficult to know. You must contact the recipient to find out what the size limitation is. Indeed, few recipients are likely to know what their size limitation is. Thus, it seems fair to say that if you have an email message over 10 MB and you want to make sure your recipient can receive it, you need to think about using some sort of special procedure.
Attached Files Most email messages are small. It’s the attached file(s) that can be large sizes, particularly image, audio, and video files.
Now let’s suppose you send an attached file under 10 MB. There’s likely no problem with the recipient receiving a 10 MB email.
Now let’s suppose for a second example that you have an attached file over 10 MB. You’re not sure whether your recipient can receive such a large email. One option for you is to upload the attached file to the cloud (internet storage), and then give your recipient permission to access your cloud to retrieve the file.
Cloud Internet storage is simply a cloud service such as Dropbox, Carbonite, iCloud, Microsoft OneDrive, and the like.
You have two problems with this procedure. First, it can be a lot of busy work for one email message. Second, the cloud provider may be mining the data in the cloud (your data) for its own purposes. That doesn’t mean that a hacker can necessarily penetrate your account on the cloud easily, but it does mean that the cloud sponsor may be using your data for commercial purposes (see Chapter 17).
Regardless of whether your cloud provider mines your data or not, you still have the problem of making special arrangements for your recipient to retrieve the file you want to send.
Large Files
So large files may pose a problem for you. But RMail LargeMail transfer solves the problem:
- It enables you to send a file that’s up to 1 GB in size. That is twenty times the size of a 50 MB limit and 100 times the size of a 10 MB limit. (Note that a LargeMail transfer via the RMail Inbox free service is currently limited to 200MB but is otherwise limited to 1 GB.)
- The RMail LargeMail transfer service is automatically encrypted for both you and the recipient. Consequently, there is no opportunity for a hacker to read an intercepted transmission.
- RMail does not mine the data on its LargeMail transmission service as do some of the cloud services. Thus, your security is complete between you and the recipient.
- You only pay for an RMail LargeMail transmission when you use it. If you pay for a private cloud rather than a free cloud, you pay for your storage space in the cloud by the month whether you use it or not.
- There is no convenient way for transferring a large file via a cloud. The recipient must get a URL and a password to access and download a large file.
As long as you use ordinary text documents, the size of your attached files will be pretty small. You can send thousands and thousands of words in a 10 MB file. But once you start to use other media such as audio, images, animation, and video, the size of the attached files can mushroom into a large number of megabytes. Video, in particular, takes up a huge amount of digital storage space.
Dual Use
The previous text discusses the communication details of RMail LargeMail transfer. Such discussion focuses on delivery. Indeed, there is an ongoing need to deliver large files to someone else. But another aspect of this technology is collaboration. Often collaboration requires large files to be securely passed back and forth between you and someone else or to be securely passed around between multiple collaborators.
There are other digital systems for collaboration that are perhaps more useful and productive. Yet such systems often have a steep learning curve and require an expensive subscription. Moreover, they may be limited, in effect, to only those outside your own business who subscribe to the same collaboration software.
With RMail LargeMail transfer you can collaborate with anyone else who uses email, and the procedure is simple and straightforward.
Final Focus
Whether you simply need to deliver or whether you need to collaborate, RMail LargeMail transfer provides you with a simple means to do so with anyone easily, conveniently, and securely.
