Receiving images in emails

David_Aston

Just recently I have received large pictures from my sister, and now my son, in emails. I did always think that 100 kilobytes or so per image was about right for sending.
Some of these, however, are two or three megabytes. The thing is, it appears that it is taking about a minute per megabytes for Windows Mail to download. About three minutes an email, for a couple of pictures.
Does this seem about right, given the size, does anyone know?
I am trying to help my sister reduce the size of hers. At the moment, Windows 8, and her Gmail seem to be making this impossible. I really would expect my son to be more on the ball.

Sparhawke

It seems that 3 minutes for you is superfast, I have done a little checking and it would seem that waits of up to an hour are not all that uncommon, the only reason I can think of is because they deem yours to not be a priority and if you send mail of that size often you would upgrade, which means paying

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935400

Pando may interest you, although I have not used it, it would seem designed for large attachments/portfolios.

It appears to do this by first creating a hashkey of your file and then sending it to your recipient, who then "accepts" it and begins the file transfer process; a little long winded but I read in this link it also has an Outlook option too

http://allthingsd.com/20060712/easier-email-attachments/

David_Aston

Thanks for that Sparhawke. It is the receiving side of things that is concerning me. It is a fact that Windows Photo Gallery email sending options, reduces any huge files to perfectly reasonable size. Just can't get that to work for my sister. Don't know why my son should send without reducing. Thanks for your input.

EchoLocation

If this is a regular thing you could all use something like a shared Flickr account and just upload the pictures instead? Might not be practical for you but just a thought.

ballyblack

As she as gmail

Picasa is useful for pics storing, sharing, sending etc

its free from Google

http://picasa.google.com/

Mr_Toad

David_Aston wrote: »

Thanks for that Sparhawke. It is the receiving side of things that is concerning me. It is a fact that Windows Photo Gallery email sending options, reduces any huge files to perfectly reasonable size. Just can't get that to work for my sister. Don't know why my son should send without reducing. Thanks for your input.

I gave up reducing the size of pictures and other attachments a long time ago, as BB speeds increased it became increasingly unnecessary. Even before fibre it wasn't really necessary. Perhaps your sister and son think the same.

There was a time when email clients had a size fairly low size limit on the size of an email forcing you to reduce the attachment size. Over time that size limit has increased.

You mention Gmail, the size limit for a single email is 25MB so Gmail is rarely going to ask you to reduce the size of a picture or three.

paddyrg

Just so you know, the way images are encoded (eg Base64) in order to transmit them via email (something that was never intended when SMTP/POP3 were invented) they grow by ~25%.

If you use online webmail (eg GMail) to view your emails, they will show you a thumbnail before you download the whole big image :-)

yangptangkipperbang

Use something like YouSendIt (changing name to Hightail).

David_Aston

Mr Toad
If my sister did happen to send me a 25 megabyte image, it would take 25 minutes to download. I really don't think I could put up with that.
Possibly you may be saying, turn on your computer, start to check email, and go and mow the lawn while you wait, or something?

kwikbreaks

25 minutes to downwload a 25MB image???

Do you have one of these?



If not you need to think about either changing your ISP or your email provider.

An averagely good ADSL connection will be 8Mbps with is a megabyte a second not a megabyte a minute.

Mr_Toad

David_Aston wrote: »

Mr Toad
If my sister did happen to send me a 25 megabyte image, it would take 25 minutes to download. I really don't think I could put up with that.
Possibly you may be saying, turn on your computer, start to check email, and go and mow the lawn while you wait, or something?

What type of internet connection do you have that would take 25 minutes to download 25MB?

You have three basic choices.

Get a faster broadband connection, unless you live somewhere that doesn't have decent BB.

Ask them to stop sending large attachments or, if they do, don't download them.

Put up with it.