How many pictures can you send with an e-mail???

[kmc1965]

Hi all,

Can anyone please tell me as to how many pictures you can send as an attachment, as a few days ago I tried to send 7 pictures and a 1 paged scanned document to my work place, but could not send this via Virgin Mail, I had a message that the attachment exceeded 25MB, I zipped the items I was sending, but got the same message about exceeding 25MB. The original folder was 49.4MB and I was shocked to see that when I zipped the folder it was 47.5MB.

I gave up at the end and downloaded the folder onto an old fashioned memory stick and gave the file to work like that!

Thanks

Kathy 

[用心棒 · Accepted solution]

Due to how non-textual / ASCII elements of a message must to be encoded before transmission it is inevitable that at least 33–37% more storage will be used that that of the original. So it is not a question of how many pictures can be sent but their overall size once encoded for transmission. An alternative to sending large files via email is to upload them to a file transfer service or cloud storage service and then include link to allow recipient to download file from there in email message.

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[kmc1965]

Thanks for your help 🙂 

[Chris_W1]

Hi kmc1965, thanks for the message and welcome back to the forums. 

I am glad that 用心棒 was able to assist. 

Can you confirm if everything is now resolved? 

KInd regards, Chris.