Task reassigned to Brian Witt.

I set her up correctly using her P: drive.  I also
had her install 7-zip, so she can compress files
and password-protect them.  

****This is an email****

Peggy,

I am following up with the conversation you had
been having with Brian Berkley, regarding large
email attachments.  

If your attachments are close to the 20mb cap,
chances are it is too big.  When attachments are
added to emails, the email structure itself
becomes much more complicated and verbose, adding
additional size to the message in its entirety. 
You may have added an 18mb attachment, but the
message as a whole could end up being 21mb, for
example.  We did upgrade our mail system several
months ago, which may have affected how big emails
actually become when attachments are added. Could
this be the reason why it was working in the past
with similar-sized emails and now it is not?

If you have attachments close to 20mb, and you
need other people to access them, your best bet is
to copy them into your P: drive.  The P: drive is
neat in that you can put any size file in there
and download it to any computer in the world with
internet access.  No web page is needed or
anything.  Simply put any file in there and you
(or anyone for that matter) can automatically
access it through the web by going to
www.wou.edu/~malloyp 

For example, if I had several large files I wanted
you to download; I would put them in my P: drive
and have you got to www.wou.edu/~wittb 
Go ahead and visit my page – you will see several
files already in there I use for work, etc. 

Let me know if this will work out for you.

Thanks,

Brian
Unix SysAdmin

Peggy,

Email is not for distributing or sending large
files, I do not manage the mail system, I was
passing along the information related to me
regarding the file size limitations.

You do have a personal web page, its the P: drive.
 Anything you put there is visible to the outside
world by giving them the address:
http://www.wou.edu/~malloyp/filename

FTP is "file transfer protocol", if you are
sending something to a publisher, I would surmise,
based on my experience, that they have a ftp server.

You could "compress" the file you are sending, by
right clicking on it, and choosing Send To ...
Compressed (Zipped) folder and emailing that.

Its not an "all of the sudden" change, the limits
have been there for some time according to the
mail system manager. 

Task reassigned to Network Support.

****This is an email****
Hi Cinthya,
 
I'm using Outlook and trying to send a couple of
Publisher documents.  I need to send the Publisher
version rather than a pdf because the person that
I'm sending it to needs to work on the document.
 
Thanks,
Peggy