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Am I the only one thinking this is fake because its a 32MB file?
Email usually caps out at 25MB...
Its not 1980 anymore.
Depends on your provider, theoretically you could also send a few gigs
Yeah but I thought the consensus was 25M.
Which provider allows more than? 25M?
Microsoft 365 allows admins to set the maximum to 150mb, but it's rare that anyone would
Plus, receiving email servers can set their limit. Many email servers won’t accept attachments that large
Not in gmail
25MB is "the" limit because gmail is basically the email provider.
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6584?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop#zippy=%2Cattachment-size-limit
If you send an attachment above 25 it makes it a gdrive link
For schools, self hosted Ms office is the norm, so idk if Gmail limit is in effect.
There are other mail providers as well. Not sure about the limits though
This dude is still down there trying so hard to prove he is right lol
They're technically half right though. Gmail does have a native send limit of 25mb, and anything above that will be a drive link. They can just receive larger ones and other services like 365 have higher limits available.
50mb is a somewhat standard limit anymore
Do you have a reference for that? Gmail is 25...
Gmail can receive 50mb files even though it can only send 25mb files
365 supports up to 150mb files
A lot of organizations (such as colleges like this one) set their limits to 50mb
On an anecdotal note, I always set at least 50mb limit for the organizations I manage in 365.
Ah! How interesting... work$ has been a Google shop for a while thus the 25m limit. Good work for o365 to enable the increase.
Email is such a fickle system. I couldn't imagine mobiles downloading 150m attachments when they only have a few GB of space...
Maybe im just too old...
Yeah, the big use I've seen for the max size limit was sending cad drawings to/from vendors and clients. No mobile usage involved, just big files that needed transmitted to allow jobs to progress.
With 128 already the most common storage size and 256 becoming that in the next few years, I don't think a few GBs of free space is right
I agree. It's just I forget that people use IMAP and choose to not download their data to their devices and leave it on servers that they don't control. 🤷
Also at 150mb, and maybe a 10gb storage allowance it doesn't leave much room for the actual text content 😂
i usually set the limit to 10MB and tell the users to fuck off when they want to send something bigger. there are more convenient methods to transfer larger files.