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

Posted by msmash on 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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  1. Not much useful, then. by sexconker · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not much editor good.

  2. Email is the wrong tool by sremick · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're trying to use email to transfer files that large, you're doing it wrong.

    1. Re:Email is the wrong tool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      I don't normally do this, but... oblig xkcd

    2. Re:Email is the wrong tool by ls671 · · Score: 3, Funny

      True enough, a 640K limit should be plenty for everybody. If nobody should ever need more than 640K...

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    3. Re:Email is the wrong tool by jader3rd · · Score: 2

      If you're trying to use email to transfer files that large, you're doing it wrong.

      Why?

  3. Maybe I'm oooooolllllld... by Vegan+Cyclist · · 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.

    1. Re:Maybe I'm oooooolllllld... by networkBoy · · Score: 3, Funny

      you're old.

      but so am I, and I agree with you.

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    2. Re:Maybe I'm oooooolllllld... by TeknoHog · · Score: 2

      I guess things would be better if people knew how email works. First you inflate the file size by some funky encoding, then you store and forward the message on all those servers. But who cares in an age where email = webmail anyway...

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  4. I'd prefer they add a different feature by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dear Google: When a Gmail user attaches a 20+ MB file to an email and types the name of a mailing list into the "To:" field, is it too much to ask that a painful jolt of electricity be sent through the keyboard and into their body?

    I know a lot of sysadmins who would upvote that RFE, if given the chance.

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  5. Re:Dear Google... by Anonymous Coward · · 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"?