"Poprivet" wrote in message
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: 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
: Pop`
:
:
You added overhead and the size is smaller?

Attachments must be encoded as text which adds 33 1/3 % to the size of the
email.
So a 5 MB attachment will be 6.7 MB email.
--
Ronald Sommer