Quick Question Re Emails

[wolf63]

Quick question

I am sending an email that contains scans that are 10,000k in total. Is that a lot? I get confuggled between all the 'bites'.

I think that I may have to look up the instructions for my new printer - scanning was too fiddly compared to the other printer that I broke.

[jeffa]

10MB, approximately, is still quite big and, depending on the recipient's provider, may not get through.

Why don't you send them one at a time?

[Buenchico]

That's 10Mb. Some email services have a size limit of around that, so you might find that either your own email provider won't allow you to send the email or the recipient's service might not accept it. However it's within the size limits set by most services these days:
http://www.outlook-apps.com/maximum-email-size/

[wolf63]

I was planning on sending them via the O xfam computer system to a shop - the email system works on Lotus. My brother laughed when I told him of the system that we use.

When you say that it big - does that mean 'really' big? He uses broadband with BT (is that Live?).

I see that the father of five furries has also posted.

Thanks guys - will phone the person concerned tomorrow and see what he wants to do.

[jeffa]

"That's 10Mb"

10MB, to be precise, or ten megabytes :-) 10Mb would be ten megabits, such as you might find in Broadband speeds.

[Buenchico]

Back in the days of dial-up internet services people would probably have cursed you for sending them an email with 10Mb of attachments because it would have taken ages to download onto their computer. These days it will only take a few seconds at most through an ADSL (copper-wired) connection and be almost instantaneous with a fibre-optic cabled connection.

So it's not the time that it takes to take to download that you need worry about. (If you've got an ADSL (i.e.non-cable) connection it might take a minute or two for your email to upload into the system though). It's only the entirely arbitrary rules set by email providers that might cause you a problem.

(And the 'five furries' send you a big collective 'Miaow', by the way, Wolf63!)

[wolf63]

I added it all up and it came to just under 13MB. I will either split it and send it or arrange to do it the old fashioned way - meet him and hand him the paper.

Chris - say hello to your brood. Is Patches still trying to kill her little ones? I don't blame her - kittens are devils in furry coats.

Thanks jeffa - are you a dead chicken?

[wolf63]

Methyl
I was handed 14 sheets of paper to type up. It has loads of figures on it and I just want it checked. He didn't take a photocopy of his figures.

Normally it would be okay but our shop is closed for a refit and boss man has been sent elsewhere to work, as a mere volunteer I can enjoy the break.

I presumed that the fact that it is a scan and jpeg that boosts the size.

Anyway thanks boys - I understand how to do stuff in Word but how a computer works is just too much for my wee brain.

It's bedtime :-)

[snags]

''it came to just under 13MB''

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