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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Maybe I'm oooooolllllld... by Vegan+Cyclist · 2017-03-02 08:26 · Score: 4, Interesting

I might be an old fuddy-duddy, but is it odd that I'm still irked when people email more than 1-2mb? Especially given how many file-share options exist? Until a few years ago I'd be fine with uploading a larger file to my own FTP site and sending a link to a URL, and it's so much easier now with GoogleDocs, Dropbox, etc...maybe I'm just old.