what's the maxium size of attacments allowed over PN outgoing email servers

[#1]

i dont email much my self so dont know much about the ins and outs of it.
but a family memeber has just tryed to send  2 photos a belive there raws converted to tiff's(there studying photography) so i would think the file sizes are on the large size.
any they got this bounce message.
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From: "Mail Delivery System" <MAILER-DAEMON@relay.pcl-ipout02.plus.net>To: Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 5:32 PMSubject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)  The following message to <@yahoo.co.uk> was undeliverable.The reason for the problem:5.1.0 - Unknown address error 552-'message size exceeds maximum message size'
so what is the maxium size of a single email allowed to be sent over PN servers?

[#2]

I think the problem might be that yahoo that bounced it back, not PN - I've had similar from NTL.

[#3]

Your problem is with yahoo imposing a limit not PN.
I have sent and received files around 5Mb without any problem.

[#4]

i think there more like 20mb+. there taken in raw format not jpeg which iam informed saves alot more information than if your cammera converts it straight to jpeg.
i thought it would be yahoo's limit. but looking where thereply came from i thought plusnet had impossed the limit.
will post back again tomoro when i find the actual size of the attacments they tried to send.

[#5]

I think that Plusnet used to accept emails up to 100MB in size and I've never seen anything that suggests that has changed. Don't forget that when send an email it gets 7 bit encoded in to a single object and the size of that will be the limiting factor. The 7 bit encoding means that the size of the email will be 8/7 of the size of the original message and attachments (about 14%larger).
Have they tried sending one picture at a time as it is the total message size that matters not the individual attachments?
What type of tiff are they? Some tiff formats are compressed and some are not. Try zipping the pictures to see if the zip file is smaller than the original tiff - if so try sending that.

[#6]

Could you upload them to your webspace and give your friend the link to download them from?

[#7]

yeah i did think of doing that jameseh but to be honest i dont think its that improtant that the photos get to there uni friend right now.
and probaly just easier for them to chuck them on a usb stick and wait till the snows gone and they can get out of the snowny capped hills of the peak district and into derby.
if i have got time later i will have a go at few options and post back how it went.

[#8]

Use Facebook

[#9]

You didn't give us a figure James ? - is it a secret ? 

[#10]

I don't believe there's a limit on SMTP, but I believe it's about 6-8MB on Webmail.

[#11]

if theres no limit on PN then it must of bein the chav's choice of email ie yahoo.
And facebook myspace are two websites i have never wanted to use. if i want to organize a night out with m8's i just use the dog and bone.
No need for the rest of the world knowing what me an m8s get upto
no limit on smtp. nice i will test this out in free usage time with my 710kbps upload speed  just need to set myself a PN email account up.

[#12]

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And facebook myspace are two websites i have never wanted to use. if i want to organize a night out with m8's i just use the dog and bone.

And I thought I was the only one left not on Facebook or MySpace. 

[#13]

What's Facebook and MySpace, is a comedy duo   

[#14]

we could have a twit about that