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Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Seth — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:07:17 -0000

Let's face it; Obviously there is no shortage of end users who like to email massive attachments and email them frequently.

I've tried to educate them, believe me I've tried, but have come to the conclusion that it's utterly pointless. They like the convenience of email and are going to continue using their email client or account as a personal file storage system no matter what we say.

Good luck to these digi-hoarders when it comes time to migrate or restore that bloated pile of digi-crap they call their email account.

They're going to need it.

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

vpetersson — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:42:33 -0000

Why can't use use an appropriate tool to transfer the files instead? There are plenty of tools that were built for sharing files, such as Dropbox. Email just isn't one of them.

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Joshua Alexander — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:04:12 -0000

I can't agree. As someone who needs to email large design files, I appreciate having a REAL email account to use for business communication.

Google shouldn't lower their limit, they should unlimit it and give receivers better tools for dealing with attachments.

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Abhijeet Pathak — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:01:08 -0000

Don't forget that most email systems including Gmail make backups of mails on multiple servers. So even if you have resent/replied same message to yourself and deleted the old message, the old message might still be there on multiple backup servers.
So I don't think its a good idea.

Re: Downgraded support for Yahoo Mail

vpetersson — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:52:32 -0000

No this shouldn't be related, but please see the support ticket that you opened. I've responded there.

Re: Downgraded support for Yahoo Mail

OG — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:40:07 -0000

When a transfer from Yahoo fails for some account, is it the case any future attempts to transfer email from that particular Yahoo account will fail, too? Or should one just keep trying?

Also, when the failure does occur, what error message does one get from YippieMove?

Thanks!

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Wes234 — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 12:03:01 -0000

You should change the name of this to the HippieMove blog.

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Johnse — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:09:28 -0000

Your inbox is filling up? Have you ever heard of deleting messages? You just said most of them are useless. You talk like once an email is created it takes up space somewhere that we can never get back...like "even if we trash it, it will just be taking up space in a landfill somewhere."

Give me a break.

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Mutterlw — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:27:31 -0000

"Damn newfangled email technology taking over my FTP." Get with it. I wonder if people complained about the obsolescence of the oven when the microwave came out. This is like saying you shouldn't use a computer because it's easier to print out your files and stuff them in a banker's box.

Re: We’ve surveyed the top 50 U.S. Colleges. Verdict: Exchange still rules academia.

vpetersson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:35:06 -0000

Well, the reason why I ignored Blackboard is because it is not an email server. It is an online learning/collaboration tool, with features like bultin board and file sharing. It's completely separate from the school's email system.

Re: We’ve surveyed the top 50 U.S. Colleges. Verdict: Exchange still rules academia.

BigX — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:57:09 -0000

Seems like you totally ignore the existence of Blackboard type systems. You ended up only researching what the administrations use. These administrations have very few differences and many similarities to enterprise corporations. So the conclusion you're trying to draw by looking at "Academia" is lost because the key characteristic that makes a College or University qualify as "Academia" is STUDENTS!

Secondly, one reason the proliferation of Exchange server is the existence of MS Office in the Enterprise. Outlook as the de facto mail client is often one out of simplicity and built-in integration with the mail server.

Many schools have moved the bulk of their email users(STUDENTS!) into closed systems like Blackboard. If you didn't look into any of these systems, then you really don't have much to say on the subject of what Colleges and Universities are using for email, only what the faculty and administration are using for internal enterprise email.

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Yeah Right — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:32:01 -0000

This is the most ridiculous idea I have read all week. Congratulations!

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Foo — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:24:11 -0000

Great job being so self serving.

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Guest — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:05:36 -0000

>Reason 3: It’s difficult to remove the attachment from an email.

come on. Just replied the msg to yourself, then delete the original one.

i.e. use your brain

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Henrique Vicente — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:38:25 -0000

Come on... Google isn't the only company offering e-mail solutions out there. There are providers with far limited services and clients that just can't deal with it.

Anyways... I designed Plifk, a file sharing solution easy to use so if you need to share your files (openly, as there is not a private option by now) feel free to check it out at www.plifk.com

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Moo — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:23:38 -0000

get a life, it's 2010.

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Bill Moore — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:17:54 -0000

Wow.

You're either some sort of competitor to gmail or kinda dumb.

It's not about efficient use of computer resources when those resources are dropping in cost radically, it's about human/user experience and simplicity.

I'm going to go with 'kinda dumb'. Or.. old.

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

SGSNEWS — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:26:50 -0000

Is it really hurting anyone? Google still gives you a delete button. On the other hand, you wont eat up the space in your account extremely fast either.

I do regard those "informational" PowerPoints as a form of spam, but file size of everything is growing. PC's are a lot more capable than they used to be, and even the smartphone I'm typing this out on had 512mb of RAM. Just the other day I saw a 256gb flash drive on NewEgg for ~$900, if anything deserves a rant it's things like that.

Gmail makes it easy enough to filter emails by sender and if they have an attachment. As soon as you receive it you will already be able to group it with others and trash them.

On a side note regarding saving emails with unnecessary attachments, why not copy the text over to Evernote (or even Google docs) and save it there in an "important emails" notebook.

Re: Why Google should lower Gmail’s attachment limit.

Béranger — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:22:53 -0000

The question is indeed about education, but not about the attachments' size. It's about the whole concept of "you never have to delete an e-mail again", because you can dispose of "Over 7484.547231 megabytes (and counting) of free storage." This way, people keep gazillions of JUNK -- not junk mail, but plainly junk -- in their Inbox. I have been used for decades with having something like 2 MB of space (Hotmail, Rocketmail, the old Yahoo Mail, other free accounts) I am currently not using my GMail account, and my Yahoo Mail account is still having too much space for my needs.