Hi can someone please help. I'm just trying to get used to this windows mail. When i try to send an e mail with a few photos attatched. As well as the photo id showing under the subject bar the photos are being shown within the viewing pain way over sized so when i try to send the photos they are holding too much info for receiving address to accept so the e mail is bouncing back. I cant see where there are options to change this. Thankyou.

Regards Chris Roberts

Put the photos into a .zip folder and attach the .zip folder.

How do i put photos into a zip folder?

Right click on the first Photo > "send to" ==> Compressed (zipped) Folder. That will create a .zip folder next to the first photo. Now drag the other photos into this .zip folder. Then attach that .zip folder to your mail. Make sure it does not get too big (in terms of number of bytes). Many ISPs limit attachments to somewhere between 3 and 5GBs.

hope you don't mind me bumbing the thread a little

Can i just mention this, i have to resort to google mail to send a zip file.
Either in "windows mail" or "yahoo mail" whenever i go to send a zip file 20 to 30 MB my internet connection gets cut of...

But no problems with google mail, any idea's why this happens....

Originally Posted by carl424

hope you don't mind me bumbing the thread a little

Can i just mention this, i have to resort to google mail to send a zip file.
Either in "windows mail" or "yahoo mail" whenever i go to send a zip file 20 to 30 MB my internet connection gets cut of...

But no problems with google mail, any idea's why this happens....

The amount of data that you can attach to a mail depends on the provider. E.g. in AOL, about 3MB is the maximum. I guess they do that in order to keep their servers unclogged. But if you have a real large file, I suggest to upload it to Skydrive (50MB max./file) or File factory (300MB max./file) and then just send the link. The recipient can then download it from there. Both services are free.

Originally Posted by whs

The amount of data that you can attach to a mail depends on the provider. E.g. in AOL, about 3MB is the maximum. I guess they do that in order to keep their servers unclogged. But if you have a real large file, I suggest to upload it to Skydrive (50MB max./file) or File factory (300MB max./file) and then just send the link. The recipient can then download it from there. Both services are free.

ARR, maybe i misunderstood this a little, yahoo mail mail has 5 boxes for you to upload 5 files at a time, with a total of 25 MB..

So i thought i would try this again, now in the 1 box , i click on browse and navigate to the zip file, only this time it is 15 MB.

I click on attach files, then after a minute or two, i loose my connection, and it will still say attaching files, only they won't attach it will keep saying this for ever and ever, so i have to abandon the attachment...

Its fine with individual files though, you can send five at a time without any problems, But it does not seem to like zip files....

It not a problem as i have been using the file factory to send large zip files, and google mail to send zip files of about 20 to 30 MB.

I asked this question some months ago on a BT forum > sub forum "yahoo mail", now you would think you would get a reply, but i diden't so i gave up.

Maybe no one has ever had this problem before, and they don't know how to answer it, i'll carry on with a few more searches about this.....

Email dont work well for large attachments. I use Binfer in that case. Try it, it may work for you as well.