Hello Mary and GP-UK,
On Thursday, April 15, 2010, at 6:37:05 AM, Mary wrote:
> Good idea - I'm new to dropbox - but it just had not occurred to me that
> 5 .Jpg files from my new camera would exceed anyone's limits - or that
> ***** to skye email went anywhere near google or hotmail!
Google provide both the technology and servers for the Sky (note
spelling!) email service; therefore the interface and facilities are
the same or very similar to Gmail. The email change at Sky took place
in 2007 so I presume that is still the case.
Not sure where hotmail (Microsoft) comes into it. Back in the long
distant past (I'm talking 13+ years ago) Microsoft and ***** had some
sort of business relationship but I very much doubt that is the case
now.
Assuming you use *****'s smart mail service, your email having reached
one of *****'s mail servers, ***** will look-up the MX record for
sky.com. I have just done that and get back 5 MX records, each
destination server ending in either googlemail.com or google.com.
Individual packets may well 'hop' through a number of routers owned
neither by *****, Google or Sky but not through anybody elses mail
servers unless the recipient has configured some form of mail
forwarding.
In your original email you quoted 25MB as the size of the email in
question. That *is* a bit on the large side. As a rule binary files
will increase in size by one third when encoded to pass through mail
systems so a number of what may seem small files, when encoded and
combined in one email can be quite large. Even if the recipient has a
broadband connection, their ISP's mail servers will probably be
delivering mail at significantly slower speeds than the recipients
maximum capability of their broadband connection. Email is *not* an
efficient method for transporting large binary files. In dial-up era
it would have been normal to have email applications split such large
emails into say 100K segments (emails) which would then be recombined
by the recipients email application. However, as previous respondents
have posted, there are plenty of services which offer the capability
of uploading files (using a protocol other than email) to a server for
subsequent collection by the intended recipient.
Chris
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