When files get STUPIDLY large
A short story for you.
A client wanted to reinstall his anti virus scanner. To make sure he got the correct version I typed up instructions, attached said scanner and pushed send. As it turned out, the file was 38MB. Some people don’t know this, but when you MIME encode an attachment is grows. Bigger. Sometimes almost 40% bigger. So my 38MB file ended up inside an email that was 47.4MB in total size.
Turns out their email server won’t do more than 30MB anyway, so the whole thing got uploaded to them them downloaded back again into my inbox with a lovely postmaster message reminder me to ‘think harder Homer’. I’m pretty sure my ISP loves me.
All which brings to me my point, which is a neat little solution to this problem of what to do if the emails get stupidly large.
It’s from a company called Leapfile and here is a video that shows you how it works.
We thought it was so cool, we have started selling it. If only I had remembered earlier I would have saved close to 100MB straight off the bat!
Carlton
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