4/22 Does hotmail have a limit to the number of attachments that can be
in a RECEIVED email. I have about 10 jpegs (approx 20k each) and I
wonder how many emails I need to seperate them into to send them to a
friend with a hotmail account.
\_ record all data to punch cards, load them onto a surpluss Oscar
Meyer Wiener truck, and launch the whole truck to the destination
using a giant railgun.
\_ Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of
tapes. -- Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, UTCS
\_ generally, asking a hotmail question on soda is a bad idea.
here is a standard soda answer:
write a shell script to send these pictures one by one using
mail/mailx, eventhough I am not sure how to encode binary files
in MIME format using commands
\_ mimencode
\_ mpack
\_ Don't be a doofus. Put them on a web site and send links. -tom
\_ You're a doofus, doofus.
\_ Wow, the previous guy is like, a prophet or something. An
insult and an answer that doesn't really answer the
question!
\_ Of course it answers the question. In fact, it's the correct
answer to the question. If someone asks "how do I hammer in
these nails with a screwdriver?", the answer is "use a hammer,
doofus." -tom
\_ Heh, that made my day.
\_ Bad analogy, doofus. I'm not saying your answer was
not a possible right answer, but it's also possible
there is some reason that's not feasible. Unlikely,
but not impossible. Also, there's no reason to be
a jerk. You could politely suggest your alternitive.
I suppose this anwers my question as to why everyone
wants to sorry your account. -jrleek
\_ The person has a soda account, so of course it's
feasible. You might say there's no reason to be a
jerk--I say there's no reason to ask stupid questions.
-tom
\_ And so he posts after the op already posted
why he didn't want it on a webpage.
\_ The op is still a doofus.
\_ The op's reasoning is flawed. This whole thread
is stupid enough that by MOTD charter section
7 subparagraph B the op shall be subject to
insults until such time as the thread is gone.
The fact that it's also about Hotmail is just
insult to injury.
\_ Hey, can I help it if people I associate
with make the mistake of using hotmail
for email? In the future, the first
question I ask when I meet someone will
be if they use hotmail for their email.
If so, I just won't associate with them.
-op
\_ You mean injury to insult?
\_ No, he probably doesn't.
\_ I'm surprised anyone would even mentioning sorry in
in this context! I agree with Tom - given the OP's
posting, "why not send links" seems a very reasonable
question...
\_ That's what I'm saying, it IS reasonable, but
you don't have to be a jerk about it. As for
the sorry mention, that's referencing
yesterday's discussion. -jrleek
\_ so if you dont have a hammer available, you'd rather
insist on using the screwrdiver, instead of getting one?
\_ I appreciate the suggestion to put the pics on a web
page. There are 2 reasons why I don't prefer to do
this. I don't want the pics publicly available. And I
don't want them on my web site indefinately. If I send
a link, the receiver might assume they will always be there.
But I will eventually take them off the web. So, good
suggestion, but I still prefer to email them. So, is
there anyone out there with a hotmail acct that can
answer my original question? -op
\_ There's another reason people might choose to hurl insults
at you at this point. It literally took me less than
100 seconds to go to http://hotmail.com, look at the FAQ, and
see that any email under 1 MByte total is fine, as long
as it doesn't put the user over their total quota.
So you're ok if the user is not close to having a
full mailbox, since you want to send less than .5 Meg.
\_ The FAQ I found on http://hotmail.com says there is a
limit of 1 Meg for outgoing messages. I doesn't
say anything about incoming messages (that I saw),
but I vaguely recall that there is some limit to
the number of attachments an incoming message can
have.
\_ All this discussion, but no answer to the actual
question. I guess hotmail users don't post to
the motd.
\_ you could have frigging mailed the stuff already
and not wasted so much time. Just email once or
10 times in smaller amounts. what the fudge is it?
It is only 200k total. Send it in one email doofus.
\_ send yourself 20 small jpg files and see what happens. there must
be some reason you're asking this if you don't think this will work.
\_ I don't have a hotmail account. It's easier to ask on the
motd than to get a hotmail acct just for this purpose. -op
\_ Better yet: open a Yahoo Mail account. Send the pix one at a time
to that account. When all of the pix have been received by the
account, send the username and password to your intended target.
Yahoo gives more storage than Hotmail anyway. |
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