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Use YouSendIt to Bypass Attachment Size Limits in e-Mail June 8, 2011

E-mail attachment size limits are a real pain to deal with.  Typical size limits range from 10MB to 25MB.

You also have to deal with corporate IT blocking certain types of commonly used attachments (typically those with .ZIP or .EXE, etc., file extensions).  Sometimes your attachment is blocked and you don’t even know it!

You can easily get around attachment file size limits and Corporate Firewalls by using YouSendIt (http://www.yousendit.com/how-it-works).  A free account lets you send files up to 50MB in size (often more than double what your current e-mail service allows).  Paid accounts allow you to send attachments up to 2GB in size.

You can send your files directly from their website, but YouSendIt also offers many nice productivity tools (http://www.yousendit.com/productivity-tools) that make YouSendIt easier and more convenient to use.  I especially like YouSendIt Express for the desktop.

YouSendIt is always on my list of must-have apps.  With a paid/Pro account you also get your own Dropbox allowing you to send files directly to a Dropbox account (https://s4.yousendit.com/cms/prosc).  Dropbox working together with YouSendIt is a great combination.

The next time you get a message back from your postmaster telling you the file attachment size limit has been exceeded or that your attachment was blocked – tell them where they can SEND IT and go to YouSendIt.com instead.

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