bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

I use a GoDaddy.com email account that is part of their hosting package for my website. I am allowed up to 50 additional email accounts under their basic plan with no additional charge. There is no limit on send or receive file size and the only filtering of either my email or the Internet is fully selectable and controlled by me. Of course, if the other party has an ISP or mail provider that controls the filtering, the fact that I can send a large file my be a moot subject. GoDaddy is not free, but if you want truly "open" Internet, that is one way to go.

jimbuckley Loc: Arizona

Here's one that hasn't been mentioned. If you have very large files to send, regardless of type, a new service is Firefox Send. Two file size limits: if you and the recipient have a Firefox account (or you each set one up), you can send up to 2.5gb. Or, you can send up to 1gb without either party having an account. Either way, you upload the file(s), it establishes a link which you copy and send to the recipient by email, text, etc. Prior to sending the link, you can password protect or not, establish an expiration period or a number of times the file(s) may be downloaded. Notably, you can use ANY browser. https://send.firefox.com

margaretnewell

I use WeTransfer. There is a free version. It works very well for large files. Just google and follow the prompts, very easy to use.

morkie1891

Yes, we transfer is great

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

The easiest way to do it. Allows you to send up to 2 GB in one transmission.

The only downside is that the person(s) you send it to must download the files within 7 days or they will be discarded and you would have to do it again.

But it's FREE.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

What is their file size large limit?

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

If you don't have Costco, there are a lot of other photo services out there. Walmart probably has one near you.

smilex3md

You can use a free account at Hightail (https://www.hightail.com/) to send files up to 100MB.

no12mo

I use Faststone. I like to keep the image size the same as original. However, when I am going to send a JPG through the email service, I like to compress the image to ~ 1mb. I have not had a problem at the other end. No one complains.

What I dislike very much is an image that has had its file size reduced by *resizing* it. We loose all detail if this method is taken to the extreme.

On the other hand, if one were to go to Faststone with the desired image on the screen and do a (save as), (options), we are taken to a dialog where compression is made available via a slider control. two panels are presented so one can look at any loss of detail. My experience is that one can reduce the file size using this compression method as much as 1/10th without noticeable loss of detail.

The program is freeware without a nag screen. One can donate some bux if desired but it is truly *free* ware.

Yet another way is to use a file splitter. I use Total Commander a two panel file manager a lot like (for us old timers who remember DOS) Norton Commander. I can highlight a file that I want to split and set up the size of each file and execute the split. I then can send this photo in snippets via serialized emails. I usually say in the subject line "filename" 1 of 5, 2 of 5 etc. that will not choke for example AOL. The recipient at the other end needs to have Total Commander who can "join" the split files. I know this a bit involved but it *is* yet another choice other than changing one's email service or using a third party service to do the file transfer.

Point is that there *are* solutions to sending a picture that is 20 mb in size. Compression works for JPG. Sending a RAW file is highly specialized and may need to be send using either a file splitter or one of these solutions offered in this topic.

It can be done...

htbrown Loc: San Francisco Bay Area

Most email programs have size limits, typically around 5MB.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Did you mean to type "25" mb? See:

The Most Popular Email Providers in the U.S.A.:

1. Gmail (Google), 1 billion active monthly users worldwide. Gmail's attachment limit is 25 mg.

2. Outlook (Microsoft), more than 400 million active users worldwide ("By default, Outlook does not send email messages with attachments that exceed 20 MB")

3. Yahoo Mail (acquired by Verizon), 227 million active monthly users ("Yahoo Mail sends emails up to 25 MB in total size. This size limit applies to both the message and its attachments")
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And to answer mwsilvers' question:
With AIM Mail and AOL Mail, you can send or receive messages and attachments up to 25 MB in total size. The size limit applies to the combined size of all the elements of the message including the text, headers, and attached files.

Guess gmail wouldn't be much help to the OP, after all

no12mo

Absolutely and same experience at this end. AOL does have its use for me namely old time friends and family members. Their new browser AOL Gold is the worse ever.

dwmoar Loc: Oregon, Willamette Valley

Don't every give your username and password to anyone else. That is just plain stupid to do or even consider, not to mention that it is against Google's Terms of Service. It is also a great way to pass along virus's/infected files. If you really feel you need to pass such large files or images to others, do like others have mentioned and use something like Dropbox or use a image hosting service.

It is hard to believe that anyone here on the hog would even suggest doing something like that.

dwmoar Loc: Oregon, Willamette Valley

Then email is not the way to transfer such files to begin with. Not to mention that email was never intended to handle such file sizes to start with. There are better ways to send such sized files and some of those ways have been mentioned already.

dwmoar Loc: Oregon, Willamette Valley

You are absolutely wrong, GoDaddy does have a file size limit on all their email

30MB
Each email sent from a GoDaddy Webmail account must be no more than 30MB. This means that the text within the email and an attachment cannot exceed a total of 30MB of data -- and the maximum size for an attachment is 20MB. Some email providers and ISPs cannot handle the size of GoDaddy emails.