Donnie Darko wrote:
Hi

When I try to send jpg images which are 5MB in size from Outlook
Express, I get an error message like that below

"The following message to was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 - Unknown address error 552-'MAIL
max. message size exceeded"

When I contacted my ISP, they advised that the max. size of mail from
OE is 5MB.
Is this a restriction within OE or is it a restriction applied by my
ISP??
If these restrictions cannot be removed, is there any way around this
issue so that I can send large image files?

Thanks

OE does not have any size limitations. Your ISP and your friend's ISP
likely do though. I'm going to guess that the message means your friend's
ISP is the problem one because usually if it's your own ISP the message is
less cryptic OR there isn't even a message, just a failure.

The only way around it would be to break the message into two parts so they
are each smaller. 5 MB isn't actually the size of message you can send,
either. E-mail must add "overhead" data to your e-mail, so the actual max
you can send might be closer to 4.5 Meg.

Such information -should- be included on the ISP's sites under tech support
areas.

HTH
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