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Email is a convenient way to transfer
information between people, including file attachments. Understand,
however, that email was not designed to transfer large files because it is a
"store and forward" system. That is, computers between our
server and your machine may store your file before it is forwarded along to the
next destination. Very large files can be rejected by machines along the
way, or simply rejected due to a lack of disk space at any
stop.
Our mail server had some problems this morning when it ran out
of space. We are back running again, and the problem should not return
because we have added considerably more storage.
Having said that, please keep your attachments
"reasonable". There is a 3 megabyte limit on mails that go
through our server. For anything larger than one meg, you should consider
putting it in the /incoming directory of our ftp site. If you need
instructions on how to do that, contact support.
Remember also to set up your mail client to "remove
messages from server". This is usually the default setting.
There is currently no limit on to your server mailbox size, so messages will
just accumulate there forever if your client is not configured to remove
them. Right now I don't think anyone is set up incorrectly, but it is a
good fact to know.
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