chopping up large mail pieces

I tried to mail a video clip that was too large for regular mail, and was
given instructions by WLM how to format WLM to chop up large mail into
smaller packets and handle it. I would like to reset it to normal again
now, because it created problems of too many mails at the receiving ends.
However, I can't find this setting in options any longer. Can anyone help?

"Alsenor" wrote in message news:UFhFo.7596$...

> I tried to mail a video clip that was too large for regular mail, and was given instructions by WLM how to format WLM to chop up large mail into smaller packets and handle it. I would like to reset it to normal again now, because it created problems of too many mails at the receiving ends. However, I can't find this setting in options any longer. Can anyone help?

It's not in Options, because it's account-specific. Right-click on the account name in the folder pane and select Properties. Look on the Advanced tab for Break apart...
--
Noel

Depending on the video size, chipping it up into pieces or sending it whole
can really mess up your recipient's email account (and possibly block their
account). Let me suggest this...

Upload the video to www.yousendit.com (free account).

https://www.yousendit.com/

After your upload is complete, you'll get a download link. Include that link
in your email and your recipient can download the message (you can also
direct mail the link via yousendit). Yousendit keeps free account links
active for 7 days. I believe up to ten downloads per link are available (for
free accounts).

IIRC free account uploads are capped at 100-Mb file size per upload.

"Alsenor" <> wrote in message
news:UFhFo.7596$...
> I tried to mail a video clip that was too large for regular mail, and was
> given instructions by WLM how to format WLM to chop up large mail into
> smaller packets and handle it. I would like to reset it to normal again
> now, because it created problems of too many mails at the receiving ends.
> However, I can't find this setting in options any longer. Can anyone
> help?
>

Alsenor wrote:

> I tried to mail a video clip that was too large for regular mail, and was
> given instructions by WLM how to format WLM to chop up large mail into
> smaller packets and handle it. I would like to reset it to normal again
> now, because it created problems of too many mails at the receiving ends.
> However, I can't find this setting in options any longer. Can anyone help?

Idhund already mentioned where is the option to slice up large e-mails.
Besides users getting numerous e-mails for one large message, also be
aware the spam filters may block your e-mails when they see the same
sender blasting lots of e-mails to the same recipient (their customer)
with the same subject.

For future reference:

E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism. It wasn't intended or
designed for that. It was designed to send lots of small messages.
There is no CRC check on the file to ensure integrity. There is no
resume to re-retrieve the file if the e-mail download fails. There is
no guarantee the e-mail will arrive uncorrupted. Large e-mails can
generate timeouts and retries due to the delay when anti-virus programs
interrogate their content.

Do not use e-mail to send large files. It is rude to the recipient.
Not every recipient might want your large file. Not every recipient has
high-speed broadband Internet access. Many users still use slow dial-up
access, especially if all they do is e-mail. You waste your e-mail
provider's disk space and their bandwidth to send a huge e-mail. You
waste the e-mail provider's disk space and bandwidth at the recipient's
end. You eat up the disk quota for the recipient's mailbox (which could
render it unusable so further e-mails get rejected due to a full
mailbox). You irritate users still on dial-up that have to wait eons
waiting to download your huge e-mail. Some users have usage quotas
(i.e., so many bytes/month) and you waste it with a file that they may
not want. Don't be insensitive to recipients of your e-mails. Take the
large file out of the e-mail.

Save the file in online storage and send the recipient a URL link to the
file. Your e-mail remains small. It is more likely to arrive. It is
more likely to be seen. The recipient can decide whether or not and
when to download your large file. Be polite by sending small e-mails.

Your ISP probably allows many gigabytes of online storage for personal
web pages. Upload your file there and provide a URL link to it. Other
methods (of using online storage), all free, are:

http://www.adrive.com/ (50GB max quota, 2GB max file size)
http://www.driveway.com/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.filefactory.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.megashares.com/ (10GB max file size)
http://www.sendspace.com/ (300MB max file size)
http://www.spread-it.com/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ (1GB max file size)
http://zshare.net/ (500MB max file size)
http://www.zupload.com/ (500MB max file size)

If it is sensitive content and when storing it online in a public
storage area or to guard it against whomever operates the online storage
service, remember to encrypt it.

Thank you for your precise answer.
(I unchecked that option now).

"Ildhund" wrote in message news:ic4aij$261$...

"Alsenor" wrote in message news:UFhFo.7596$...

> I tried to mail a video clip that was too large for regular mail, and was
> given instructions by WLM how to format WLM to chop up large mail into
> smaller packets and handle it. I would like to reset it to normal again
> now, because it created problems of too many mails at the receiving ends.
> However, I can't find this setting in options any longer. Can anyone
> help?

It's not in Options, because it's account-specific. Right-click on the
account name in the folder pane and select Properties. Look on the Advanced
tab for Break apart...
--
Noel

Thanks for this tip!

"Magnus" wrote in message news:AelFo.23744$...

Depending on the video size, chipping it up into pieces or sending it whole
can really mess up your recipient's email account (and possibly block their
account). Let me suggest this...

Upload the video to www.yousendit.com (free account).

https://www.yousendit.com/

After your upload is complete, you'll get a download link. Include that link
in your email and your recipient can download the message (you can also
direct mail the link via yousendit). Yousendit keeps free account links
active for 7 days. I believe up to ten downloads per link are available (for
free accounts).

IIRC free account uploads are capped at 100-Mb file size per upload.

"Alsenor" <> wrote in message
news:UFhFo.7596$...
> I tried to mail a video clip that was too large for regular mail, and was
> given instructions by WLM how to format WLM to chop up large mail into
> smaller packets and handle it. I would like to reset it to normal again
> now, because it created problems of too many mails at the receiving ends.
> However, I can't find this setting in options any longer. Can anyone
> help?
>

"VanguardLH" <> wrote in message
news:ic4qif$8rf$...
> Alsenor wrote:
>
>> I tried to mail a video clip that was too large for regular mail, and was
>> given instructions by WLM how to format WLM to chop up large mail into
>> smaller packets and handle it. I would like to reset it to normal again
>> now, because it created problems of too many mails at the receiving ends.
>> However, I can't find this setting in options any longer. Can anyone
>> help?
>
> Idhund already mentioned where is the option to slice up large e-mails.
> Besides users getting numerous e-mails for one large message, also be
> aware the spam filters may block your e-mails when they see the same
> sender blasting lots of e-mails to the same recipient (their customer)
> with the same subject.
>
> For future reference:
>
> E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism. It wasn't intended or
> designed for that. It was designed to send lots of small messages.
> There is no CRC check on the file to ensure integrity. There is no
> resume to re-retrieve the file if the e-mail download fails. There is
> no guarantee the e-mail will arrive uncorrupted. Large e-mails can
> generate timeouts and retries due to the delay when anti-virus programs
> interrogate their content.
>
> Do not use e-mail to send large files. It is rude to the recipient.
> Not every recipient might want your large file. Not every recipient has
> high-speed broadband Internet access. Many users still use slow dial-up
> access, especially if all they do is e-mail. You waste your e-mail
> provider's disk space and their bandwidth to send a huge e-mail. You
> waste the e-mail provider's disk space and bandwidth at the recipient's
> end. You eat up the disk quota for the recipient's mailbox (which could
> render it unusable so further e-mails get rejected due to a full
> mailbox). You irritate users still on dial-up that have to wait eons
> waiting to download your huge e-mail. Some users have usage quotas
> (i.e., so many bytes/month) and you waste it with a file that they may
> not want. Don't be insensitive to recipients of your e-mails. Take the
> large file out of the e-mail.
>
> Save the file in online storage and send the recipient a URL link to the
> file. Your e-mail remains small. It is more likely to arrive. It is
> more likely to be seen. The recipient can decide whether or not and
> when to download your large file. Be polite by sending small e-mails.
>
> Your ISP probably allows many gigabytes of online storage for personal
> web pages. Upload your file there and provide a URL link to it. Other
> methods (of using online storage), all free, are:
>
> http://www.adrive.com/ (50GB max quota, 2GB max file size)
> http://www.driveway.com/ (500MB max file size)
> http://www.filefactory.com/ (300MB max file size)
> http://www.megashares.com/ (10GB max file size)
> http://www.sendspace.com/ (300MB max file size)
> http://www.spread-it.com/ (500MB max file size)
> http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ (1GB max file size)
> http://zshare.net/ (500MB max file size)
> http://www.zupload.com/ (500MB max file size)
>
> If it is sensitive content and when storing it online in a public
> storage area or to guard it against whomever operates the online storage
> service, remember to encrypt it.

I know that I am going off topic here, but this is an opportunity for me to
use the text in this thread as an example of my problem. You will see that
most of the e-mail layout in this thread so far is untidy in as much that
many of the lines are broken and have just two or three words and my
contribution will no doubt be the same. Why is this?

"Emrys Davies" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> "VanguardLH" <> wrote in message
> news:ic4qif$8rf$...
>> Alsenor wrote:
>>
>>> I tried to mail a video clip that was too large for regular mail, and
>>> was
>>> given instructions by WLM how to format WLM to chop up large mail into
>>> smaller packets and handle it. I would like to reset it to normal again
>>> now, because it created problems of too many mails at the receiving
>>> ends.
>>> However, I can't find this setting in options any longer. Can anyone
>>> help?
>>
>> Idhund already mentioned where is the option to slice up large e-mails.
>> Besides users getting numerous e-mails for one large message, also be
>> aware the spam filters may block your e-mails when they see the same
>> sender blasting lots of e-mails to the same recipient (their customer)
>> with the same subject.
>>
>> For future reference:
>>
>> E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism. It wasn't intended or
>> designed for that. It was designed to send lots of small messages.
>> There is no CRC check on the file to ensure integrity. There is no
>> resume to re-retrieve the file if the e-mail download fails. There is
>> no guarantee the e-mail will arrive uncorrupted. Large e-mails can
>> generate timeouts and retries due to the delay when anti-virus programs
>> interrogate their content.
>>
>> Do not use e-mail to send large files. It is rude to the recipient.
>> Not every recipient might want your large file. Not every recipient has
>> high-speed broadband Internet access. Many users still use slow dial-up
>> access, especially if all they do is e-mail. You waste your e-mail
>> provider's disk space and their bandwidth to send a huge e-mail. You
>> waste the e-mail provider's disk space and bandwidth at the recipient's
>> end. You eat up the disk quota for the recipient's mailbox (which could
>> render it unusable so further e-mails get rejected due to a full
>> mailbox). You irritate users still on dial-up that have to wait eons
>> waiting to download your huge e-mail. Some users have usage quotas
>> (i.e., so many bytes/month) and you waste it with a file that they may
>> not want. Don't be insensitive to recipients of your e-mails. Take the
>> large file out of the e-mail.
>>
>> Save the file in online storage and send the recipient a URL link to the
>> file. Your e-mail remains small. It is more likely to arrive. It is
>> more likely to be seen. The recipient can decide whether or not and
>> when to download your large file. Be polite by sending small e-mails.
>>
>> Your ISP probably allows many gigabytes of online storage for personal
>> web pages. Upload your file there and provide a URL link to it. Other
>> methods (of using online storage), all free, are:
>>
>> http://www.adrive.com/ (50GB max quota, 2GB max file size)
>> http://www.driveway.com/ (500MB max file size)
>> http://www.filefactory.com/ (300MB max file size)
>> http://www.megashares.com/ (10GB max file size)
>> http://www.sendspace.com/ (300MB max file size)
>> http://www.spread-it.com/ (500MB max file size)
>> http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ (1GB max file size)
>> http://zshare.net/ (500MB max file size)
>> http://www.zupload.com/ (500MB max file size)
>>
>> If it is sensitive content and when storing it online in a public
>> storage area or to guard it against whomever operates the online storage
>> service, remember to encrypt it.
>
> I know that I am going off topic here, but this is an opportunity for me
> to use the text in this thread as an example of my problem. You will see
> that most of the e-mail layout in this thread so far is untidy in as much
> that many of the lines are broken and have just two or three words and my
> contribution will no doubt be the same. Why is this?

Well, I have answered my own question in as much that if I increase the size
of the page by dragging, the layout of the text becomes very acceptable.
Sorry about that, although it may help someone to understand the reason WHY.

"Emrys Davies" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> "Emrys Davies" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> "VanguardLH" <> wrote in message
>> news:ic4qif$8rf$...
>>> Alsenor wrote:
>>>
>>>> I tried to mail a video clip that was too large for regular mail, and
>>>> was
>>>> given instructions by WLM how to format WLM to chop up large mail
>>>> into
>>>> smaller packets and handle it. I would like to reset it to normal
>>>> again
>>>> now, because it created problems of too many mails at the receiving
>>>> ends.
>>>> However, I can't find this setting in options any longer. Can anyone
>>>> help?
>>>
>>> Idhund already mentioned where is the option to slice up large
>>> e-mails.
>>> Besides users getting numerous e-mails for one large message, also be
>>> aware the spam filters may block your e-mails when they see the same
>>> sender blasting lots of e-mails to the same recipient (their customer)
>>> with the same subject.
>>>
>>> For future reference:
>>>
>>> E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism. It wasn't intended
>>> or
>>> designed for that. It was designed to send lots of small messages.
>>> There is no CRC check on the file to ensure integrity. There is no
>>> resume to re-retrieve the file if the e-mail download fails. There is
>>> no guarantee the e-mail will arrive uncorrupted. Large e-mails can
>>> generate timeouts and retries due to the delay when anti-virus
>>> programs
>>> interrogate their content.
>>>
>>> Do not use e-mail to send large files. It is rude to the recipient.
>>> Not every recipient might want your large file. Not every recipient
>>> has
>>> high-speed broadband Internet access. Many users still use slow
>>> dial-up
>>> access, especially if all they do is e-mail. You waste your e-mail
>>> provider's disk space and their bandwidth to send a huge e-mail. You
>>> waste the e-mail provider's disk space and bandwidth at the
>>> recipient's
>>> end. You eat up the disk quota for the recipient's mailbox (which
>>> could
>>> render it unusable so further e-mails get rejected due to a full
>>> mailbox). You irritate users still on dial-up that have to wait eons
>>> waiting to download your huge e-mail. Some users have usage quotas
>>> (i.e., so many bytes/month) and you waste it with a file that they may
>>> not want. Don't be insensitive to recipients of your e-mails. Take
>>> the
>>> large file out of the e-mail.
>>>
>>> Save the file in online storage and send the recipient a URL link to
>>> the
>>> file. Your e-mail remains small. It is more likely to arrive. It is
>>> more likely to be seen. The recipient can decide whether or not and
>>> when to download your large file. Be polite by sending small e-mails.
>>>
>>> Your ISP probably allows many gigabytes of online storage for personal
>>> web pages. Upload your file there and provide a URL link to it.
>>> Other
>>> methods (of using online storage), all free, are:
>>>
>>> http://www.adrive.com/ (50GB max quota, 2GB max file
>>> size)
>>> http://www.driveway.com/ (500MB max file size)
>>> http://www.filefactory.com/ (300MB max file size)
>>> http://www.megashares.com/ (10GB max file size)
>>> http://www.sendspace.com/ (300MB max file size)
>>> http://www.spread-it.com/ (500MB max file size)
>>> http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ (1GB max file size)
>>> http://zshare.net/ (500MB max file size)
>>> http://www.zupload.com/ (500MB max file size)
>>>
>>> If it is sensitive content and when storing it online in a public
>>> storage area or to guard it against whomever operates the online
>>> storage
>>> service, remember to encrypt it.
>>
>> I know that I am going off topic here, but this is an opportunity for
>> me to use the text in this thread as an example of my problem. You
>> will see that most of the e-mail layout in this thread so far is untidy
>> in as much that many of the lines are broken and have just two or three
>> words and my contribution will no doubt be the same. Why is this?
>
> Well, I have answered my own question in as much that if I increase the
> size of the page by dragging, the layout of the text becomes very
> acceptable. Sorry about that, although it may help someone to understand
> the reason WHY.


You are probably using a lower screen resolution than your monitor wants
you to use. That's why you see the problem, but not us. Try increasing it
a notch or two.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010
Imperial Beach, CA

"Bruce Hagen" <> wrote in message
news:ic645s$vaf$...
>
> "Emrys Davies" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> "Emrys Davies" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>>
>>> "VanguardLH" <> wrote in message
>>> news:ic4qif$8rf$...
>>>> Alsenor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I tried to mail a video clip that was too large for regular mail, and
>>>>> was
>>>>> given instructions by WLM how to format WLM to chop up large mail into
>>>>> smaller packets and handle it. I would like to reset it to normal
>>>>> again
>>>>> now, because it created problems of too many mails at the receiving
>>>>> ends.
>>>>> However, I can't find this setting in options any longer. Can anyone
>>>>> help?
>>>>
>>>> Idhund already mentioned where is the option to slice up large e-mails.
>>>> Besides users getting numerous e-mails for one large message, also be
>>>> aware the spam filters may block your e-mails when they see the same
>>>> sender blasting lots of e-mails to the same recipient (their customer)
>>>> with the same subject.
>>>>
>>>> For future reference:
>>>>
>>>> E-mail is NOT a reliable file transfer mechanism. It wasn't intended
>>>> or
>>>> designed for that. It was designed to send lots of small messages.
>>>> There is no CRC check on the file to ensure integrity. There is no
>>>> resume to re-retrieve the file if the e-mail download fails. There is
>>>> no guarantee the e-mail will arrive uncorrupted. Large e-mails can
>>>> generate timeouts and retries due to the delay when anti-virus programs
>>>> interrogate their content.
>>>>
>>>> Do not use e-mail to send large files. It is rude to the recipient.
>>>> Not every recipient might want your large file. Not every recipient
>>>> has
>>>> high-speed broadband Internet access. Many users still use slow
>>>> dial-up
>>>> access, especially if all they do is e-mail. You waste your e-mail
>>>> provider's disk space and their bandwidth to send a huge e-mail. You
>>>> waste the e-mail provider's disk space and bandwidth at the recipient's
>>>> end. You eat up the disk quota for the recipient's mailbox (which
>>>> could
>>>> render it unusable so further e-mails get rejected due to a full
>>>> mailbox). You irritate users still on dial-up that have to wait eons
>>>> waiting to download your huge e-mail. Some users have usage quotas
>>>> (i.e., so many bytes/month) and you waste it with a file that they may
>>>> not want. Don't be insensitive to recipients of your e-mails. Take
>>>> the
>>>> large file out of the e-mail.
>>>>
>>>> Save the file in online storage and send the recipient a URL link to
>>>> the
>>>> file. Your e-mail remains small. It is more likely to arrive. It is
>>>> more likely to be seen. The recipient can decide whether or not and
>>>> when to download your large file. Be polite by sending small e-mails.
>>>>
>>>> Your ISP probably allows many gigabytes of online storage for personal
>>>> web pages. Upload your file there and provide a URL link to it. Other
>>>> methods (of using online storage), all free, are:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.adrive.com/ (50GB max quota, 2GB max file size)
>>>> http://www.driveway.com/ (500MB max file size)
>>>> http://www.filefactory.com/ (300MB max file size)
>>>> http://www.megashares.com/ (10GB max file size)
>>>> http://www.sendspace.com/ (300MB max file size)
>>>> http://www.spread-it.com/ (500MB max file size)
>>>> http://www.transferbigfiles.com/ (1GB max file size)
>>>> http://zshare.net/ (500MB max file size)
>>>> http://www.zupload.com/ (500MB max file size)
>>>>
>>>> If it is sensitive content and when storing it online in a public
>>>> storage area or to guard it against whomever operates the online
>>>> storage
>>>> service, remember to encrypt it.
>>>
>>> I know that I am going off topic here, but this is an opportunity for me
>>> to use the text in this thread as an example of my problem. You will
>>> see that most of the e-mail layout in this thread so far is untidy in as
>>> much that many of the lines are broken and have just two or three words
>>> and my contribution will no doubt be the same. Why is this?
>>
>> Well, I have answered my own question in as much that if I increase the
>> size of the page by dragging, the layout of the text becomes very
>> acceptable. Sorry about that, although it may help someone to understand
>> the reason WHY.
>
>
> You are probably using a lower screen resolution than your monitor wants
> you to use. That's why you see the problem, but not us. Try increasing it
> a notch or two.
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010
> Imperial Beach, CA
>

Thanks for that. I am happy now that I know what is going on. Funny, I was
using an example which I thought was clear to all, but was not evident to
any of you.