Google Increases Gmail Attachment Limit To 50MB For Recipients (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday March 2, 2017 @08:01AM from the incremental-changes dept.

Mark Wilson, writing for BetaNews: With Gmail you can now receive attachments up to 50MB in size. It's important to note that the new attachment limit only applies to incoming email. Google would much rather you make use of Google Drive if you want to send large files to people. When it comes to sending files, you are limited to attaching up to 25MB of data in the form of one or many files. If you try to attach files that go over this limit, you'll be prompted to go down the Google Drive route instead. Not much useful, then.

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Email is the wrong tool by sremick · 2017-03-02 08:19 · Score: 3, Insightful

If you're trying to use email to transfer files that large, you're doing it wrong.
Re:Dear Google... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-03-02 08:52 · Score: 3, Insightful

If this was 2008 maybe. I can download gigabytes worth of data a day on my phone let alone my cable internet so why the hell do we have bizarrely tiny limits on email size? Who in this day an age is going "hmmm 30 megs is way too big for me and my internet connection"?