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Transmitting photographs as email attachments

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  • 30-01-2014 1:47pm
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    Maidhci
    Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭


    I am having a problem transmitting some photographs (4), size 44 MB in total, by email, via gmail. I zipped the photos without any joy. I split into 2 batches, 1 containing 23 MB which was transmitted successfully. The 2nd batch containing the remaining 2 photos, 21 MB failed to transmit. Same error result, as previously, was shown ... "552 sorry, that message size exceeds my databytes limit (#5.3.4)".

    I contacted Three, who are my Internet service provider and they advise that there is no limit restriction imposed by 3? Is it therefore a gmail issue? Are there any settings that I must change on my gmail account? Any help will be greatly appreciated.


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    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,016 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    You will need to resize the photos before you send them, also don't zip them as if you do your more likely to get this error. You can download and install Image Resizer for Windows which will do the job, just right click on multiple photos->Resize Pictures and follow the instructions. Then attach the resized files

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    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Maidhci wrote: »
    I am having a problem transmitting some photographs (4), size 44 MB in total, by email, via gmail

    E-mail isn't the best choice for sending large files.

    If you signed up for Google Drive (since you have a google account already), you could upload the files then make them public and share them out.
    So you only need to e-mail the web link to them, and also you keep a backup of your photos in Google Drive.


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    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,778 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    There are some simple image hosting sites that are better for this

    www.imgur.com
    http://snag.gy
    http://tinypic.com
    https://imageshack.com
    http://photobucket.com

    Or create a www.dropbox account and share the folder if the images are sensitive


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    PrzemoF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭PrzemoF


    Send them one-by-one


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    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,383 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    Maidhci wrote: »
    I am having a problem transmitting some photographs (4), size 44 MB in total, by email, via gmail. I zipped the photos without any joy. I split into 2 batches, 1 containing 23 MB which was transmitted successfully. The 2nd batch containing the remaining 2 photos, 21 MB failed to transmit. Same error result, as previously, was shown ... "552 sorry, that message size exceeds my databytes limit (#5.3.4)".

    I contacted Three, who are my Internet service provider and they advise that there is no limit restriction imposed by 3? Is it therefore a gmail issue? Are there any settings that I must change on my gmail account? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    It wasnt that hard to find
    https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6584?hl=en

    "You can send messages up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size. If you’d like to send attachments that are larger than this, you can insert from Google Drive instead.

    You may not be able to send larger attachments to contacts who use other email services with smaller attachment limits. If your attachment is too large to be sent to your contacts, you can also insert using Google Drive to get larger files to them. (You can also invite them to Gmail)."


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    edanto
    Registered Users Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭edanto


    Maidhci wrote: »
    ... "552 sorry, that message size exceeds my databytes limit (#5.3.4)".

    By any chance, was the section quoted above an error message sent back from the person you were trying to send the photos to? Your mail may have pushed them over quota, and their corporate email system is sending that error message.

    As Zascar mentioned, there are plenty of ways to send photos other than attaching them to an email - I've often used those type of file hosting sites to share files that are up to GB in size.

    Dropbox is another easy to use alternative, where you upload files to a dropbox folder and send the person a link to access.


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    Maidhci
    Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭Maidhci


    Thanks edanto - it is quite probable that the message received was sent from the intended recipient's mailbox. In fact reading it now, with your very helpful input, seeing that it states ".....message size exceeds my databytes limit" it is likely that this is the problem. Will check out with the intended recipient who also has a gmail account. Thank again, and thanks for all the helpful suggestions above, which I will explore and which I have thanked individually, where appropriate.


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