Gmail to support up to 50 MB attachments

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/03/receive-emails-of-up-to-50mb-in-gmail.html

by flyingramen • 9 years ago

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ProAm2• 9 years ago

I dont trust them to keep this feature, but more as a means to force people to use Google Drive.

johansch• 9 years ago

You think they are going to go backwards in terms of quotas like this, in the future?

Right...

Anyway, this is a welcome change. I've bumped into the 20 MB limit a bunch of times...

Sargos• 9 years ago

What do you mean keep? Once they release this 50mb limit it's pretty much set in stone forever as other email providers will assume gmail users can accept it. If they removed/lowered it then emails would break.

ProAm2• 9 years ago

They would sunset the feature and migrate all attachments to Google Drive, I think they did the same with Picasa and forced a move to Google Photos (I might not remember the product names correctly, I didnt use it but family members did)?

mike-cardwell• 9 years ago

What do you mean by "emails would break"? They would be rejected by Googles MX servers, and the sending server would relay a bounce message to the sender explaining the problem... That is just a normal function of email.

All MX servers have arbitrary limits. Those limits can be increased/reduced at will without "breaking email"

It is already a common case that people send emails which are larger than the receiving system is willing to accept and are therefore rejected. They then receive a bounce and make alternative arrangements for transferring the file.

Bombthecat• 9 years ago

Gmail Attachments already count toward your drive space.

So, it is a what move to fill it up with mails.

frik2• 9 years ago

Wow, that's good to know. It looks like one step before the force on more to Google Drive

bichiliad• 9 years ago

Note that this is for receiving emails only; for sending large files, you'll still need to use Google Drive.

rocky1138• 9 years ago

Disappointed that this only covers receiving. There have been many times where I had to send a file of 27MB, etc.

CamperBob23• 9 years ago

GMail is less than useful for sending attachments, assuming they still do stuff like blocking .zip files containing executables. I can't use my GMail account to communicate with customers at all.

baal80spam• 9 years ago

They do, recently they even started blocking 7z...

johnsea• 9 years ago

Rename .zip to .zpi or .izp or pzi, ... then it works.

With less than useful I agree (switched to fastmail...)

vatotemking4• 9 years ago

Me too. I use send zip files to my customers every now and then.

This is another example of them, subtly forcing you to use google drive for files.

buttershakes• 9 years ago

I built a gmail plugin several years ago that let you send arbitrarily large attachments w/ web download so you didn't have to use google drive, but had a terrible time marketing and promoting it. Now it seems like there are a lot of third party options in the space, is this really an issue given the services available?

heavymark• 9 years ago

It says Gmail but is on the G Suite blog and mentions specifically G Suite Editions. So was wondering earlier today if it applies to G Suite Gmail Only or all gmail customers including @gmail.com?

My main question is however how will the receiving more help if the sending limit is still low? Are there any top email providers such as Microsoft, Yahoo, etc, that support sending more than 25MB emails?

I think when sending emails to other gmail/g suite users the send limit should be 50mb, but when sending to anyone else should be 25mb, since 99% of others would only be 25mb receiving limit and would be a lot of email bounces otherwise.

nashashmi• 9 years ago

Rackspace can send 50MB

jrullman• 9 years ago

Fastmail can send emails up to 70MB (which due to encoding usually means the attachment can be 50MB).

nvr219• 9 years ago

I see a lot of on prem exchange implementation with limits at 50mb, 100mb.

XorNot• 9 years ago

Yet I still won't be able to email encrypted archives around.

blisterpeanuts3• 9 years ago

For years, I've used a web hosting company instead of attachments. A simple alias uploads a file to the web host, and I can just paste in a URL.

Dreamhost gives so much space that I just leave stuff up there and almost never remove it, so the link stays good; and since it's my own domain name, it will remain good even if I change hosts.

I guess Drop Box and Google Drive are the modern equivalents, but my URLs are nice and simple and I have complete control. Really, I'm surprised more people don't do it this way.

KayL2• 9 years ago

how many do you have? and how large is it? I think Dreamhost will ban you one day.

blisterpeanuts3• 9 years ago

Ban??? Where do you get that idea?

Dreamhost gives you gigabytes of space even on the basic $9/month plan, and they add more storage over time until you basically have unlimited space.

The one thing they don't like is to use your account as a place to back up a 500 gig drive. You will get an automated warning if you do (based on my experience). The rule of thumb is use, don't abuse.

wcchandler• 9 years ago

Awesome. Right now the industry standard is to limit incoming mail to 25mb attachments. Once it becomes common place to accept larger sizes we can squash out these technological relics.

cathartes2• 9 years ago

I guess it's slightly better than sending seventeen 1.44M floppy disks in the mail. Slightly. ;-)

askvictor• 9 years ago

I wonder if you can send a 50MB attachment if using smtp-relay.gmail.com

frik2• 9 years ago

Will GMail support binary files and password protected archives again?

It's pretty off-putting - instead of just sending or adding a warning message, GMail blocks such files.

ap46• 9 years ago

Are we stupid?

Who even uses Drive? Let alone share anything using it.

cathartes2• 9 years ago

Why not wetransfer.com? Sending attachments up to 2 GB through their free service is pretty painless, and sure beats Google Drive.

Gmail to support up to 50 MB attachments

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