Gmail Doubles Maximum Attachment Size to 20 MB

Mooreberg said on May 22, 2007 12:43 PM PDT:

This is great news. Makes it a lot quicker to transfer files that aren't enormous, and reduces the need to always have a USB drive with you. Good work, google.

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Yannick said on May 22, 2007 12:46 PM PDT:

Let's make it infinity+1....

starting at 20 MB

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Federico 'Phate' Pistono said on May 22, 2007 12:47 PM PDT:

It's never too much, when talking about the big G.

Are you listening Google, a bar, quick!

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cgull said on May 22, 2007 12:55 PM PDT:

Google = Freedom, Remove the restrictions, it doesn't make sense why only 10MB or 20MB. Google can handle it.

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Michael said on May 22, 2007 1:09 PM PDT:

Is there still the flexibility?

Eg can you upload 21mb?

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Anonymous said on May 22, 2007 1:16 PM PDT:

I've never actually understood the reason for such a low threshold on attachments.

I like to send hi-res pics and several of them, so this limit has always been annoying.

Maybe that's the point, so Google can have apps like Picasa (and Web Albums), where I can upload any size photos I want and share them. Sort of an anti-cannibalism threshold. LOL =)

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Sr. Fredinho said on May 22, 2007 1:54 PM PDT:

Ja tenho esse tipo de problema com 10 megas, imagine com 20
Odeio nao fazer a menor ideia de qto do arquivo ja foi. Isso seria muito bem vindo!

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Anonymous said on May 22, 2007 2:13 PM PDT:

The company I work for only allows its employees 20MB of space in their inbox/deleted items folder. A single email sent to me from a gmail user could block me from sending email until I permanently deleted the email. Urgh!

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Padraic said on May 22, 2007 2:17 PM PDT:

Status bar, PLEASE! I hate just watching the "loading" graphic for minutes and minutes praying my browser hasn't just frozen.

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Anonymous said on May 22, 2007 3:03 PM PDT:

I'm not a big fan of large email attachments.

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Jyvyn said on May 22, 2007 4:16 PM PDT:

I want Gmail to natively support multiple-uploads from just one upload dialogue.

@anonymous: Picassa has a limit on the maximum file size (or maybe it's dimensions). It's something in the order of 10 MB, I think.

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Tsuki said on May 22, 2007 6:04 PM PDT:

It was about time.

This measure was needed and I'm sure everyone will be satisfied... But I think you can do better.

I'm not asking for unlimited attachment size, but taking into account nowadays image's size (which are often what we like to share the most) 100-200mb will be a nice number to start with.

Probably I'm daydreaming, but that's my point.

Anyway, you guys, once again, lead the run... And the rest can't do nothing but try to follow you...
Be careful, they might catch you :P (just trying to increase the pressure there :P)

Bye !

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HuaBin said on May 22, 2007 6:33 PM PDT:

but the speed of sending the mail that has so big attachment

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Angie said on May 22, 2007 7:51 PM PDT:

That's good news, and avoid the necessity to go for other sites for uploading and storing such as rapidshare. Cheers!

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Aaron Snyder said on May 22, 2007 7:58 PM PDT:

It's nice to see that Google is continuing their mentality to just give us double what everyone else gives. I think this may spark a nice long post on the blog... Thanks for this man! Keep up the good posts!

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Anonymous said on May 22, 2007 9:00 PM PDT:

What good is 20mb, when I wanna send out to GoogleGroups, the max size is still 1mb!!!!!

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laurent said on May 22, 2007 9:11 PM PDT:

this is nice, but PDF as HTML sucks... Check out docufarm.com to view your documents online.

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Justin said on May 22, 2007 10:34 PM PDT:

Why not have a GDrive? When you upload an attachment, Gmail intelligently uploads it to GDrive and attaches the link to it. So, there's no worry about big emails. I know this looks like we are using a third-party file hosting service.

@Alex: It's been quite a while that your page doesn't show up quite well on Firefox. I don't know what's causing the problem. On IE, it looks fine and I see ads there too :P

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Nemilar said on May 22, 2007 10:53 PM PDT:

Indeed - Lack of a status bar is a serious BUG.

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Tanja said on May 23, 2007 12:43 AM PDT:

Oh no... bigger attachments means even faster running out of gmailstorage. I'd wish they'd give us more storage :-)

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Anonymous said on May 23, 2007 12:57 AM PDT:

Never sent big attachments.

They'd better increase ridiculous 100 MB limit in googlepages and allow making directories there.

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skywriter14 said on May 23, 2007 1:07 AM PDT:

I use Opera when I upload bigger files to any site. The opera statusbar is smart, it shows exactly what is hapenning.

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Jelda said on May 23, 2007 1:21 AM PDT:

Its a great improvement over its competitors.
You know, if you increase even more, there may be some misuse of gmail. Like uploading pirated movies ;)

Jelda

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Nuno Loureiro said on May 23, 2007 4:02 AM PDT:

Quoting:

Gmail was quite forgiving and you could send more than 10 MB in some cases

Maybe because they couldn't set exactly 10Mb as the limit, since all the binary files must be encoded, usually base64 encoded that are around 20-30% bigger. Since it's not an exact science they needed to set the limit to 12-13Mb instead of 10Mb.

That's not being forgiving, that's technical limitations... :-)

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Ionut Alex Chitu said on May 23, 2007 4:05 AM PDT:

<< Maybe because they couldn't set exactly 10Mb as the limit, since all the binary files must be encoded, usually base64 encoded that are around 20-30% bigger. >>

Not true. You could upload 13-14 MB files. And that's the real size of the file.

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Anonymous said on May 23, 2007 7:11 AM PDT:

you know, you could always use opera to get an upload bar.
and google could improve their opera support of course ;)

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Ionut Alex Chitu said on May 23, 2007 7:18 AM PDT:

I use Opera (from time to time), but I don't see any status bar when uploading files to Gmail. Can you post a screenshot (upload it to a site like ImageShack)?

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Brian said on May 23, 2007 7:36 AM PDT:

I don't understand. Most email servers won't receive emails larger than 10MB so what's the big deal?

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admin said on May 23, 2007 11:16 AM PDT:

its nice. but a progress bar is really needed..

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Bob_Smith said on May 23, 2007 11:28 AM PDT:

Brian said... "I don't understand. Most email servers won't receive emails larger than 10MB so what's the big deal?"

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Example... my Quicken data file is about 10MB - so I was at the limit. A lot of people use Gmail for off-site storage of their most important data, and sometimes those files are more than 10MB.

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Faizal said on May 23, 2007 1:25 PM PDT:

There is also a changing in Google Groups attachment size limit, from 1Mb to 5Mb.

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Anonymous said on May 23, 2007 3:24 PM PDT:

sucks basically. YOu can only send 20MB+ to other google accounts. and uploading 20MB quicker is possible with great NET speeds else ...sucks

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Motorcycle Guy said on May 23, 2007 8:13 PM PDT:

This is great news. I definitely agree thought it would be nice to see a progress bar on larger attachments at least.

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Peter Huesken said on May 25, 2007 4:09 AM PDT:

When I read about "bigger attachments in Gmail", the first thing that came to my mind was ...hmm, "a sub-optimal solution"

First, a big group of (web-)mail providers doesn´t accept mails this size; and this limitation won´t persuade those mail users to switch to Gmail overnight; it will rather create irritation for them

Second, I´d have expect an anouncement of a feature like "zip-attachments-on-the-fly", that would try to make attachments smaller instead of bigger.
For pictures this also could even have been a "crop-pictures-on-the-fly" feature, that allows you to crop your pictures to a selected maximum group size, while keeping them directly visible and usable for mail receivers.

Third, the *real* solution of course would have been the announcement of the Google Disk (or Google Storage), where you upload your stuff (not to Gmail, but) to Gdisk, and sent the pointer to the file(s) via Gmail. The receiver(s) can fetch their stuff on the Gdisk site. Result:
- no problems for users of other (web-)mail providers
- extra traffic from users of other (web-)mail providers to Google

It´s not to late for this...

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El Computador - Costa Rica said on May 25, 2007 8:06 AM PDT:

Amigos Amigas:

Muchisimas Gracias Gamil por hacernos sentir como en el CiberHome, siempre listos.

Pura vida . . .

San José, Costa Rica

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priya said on May 25, 2007 10:08 AM PDT:

The size must be a little more. May be about 50 mb. But for now 20 mb is also as it is gmail. But whats the data transfer speed achieved.

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amhey said on May 27, 2007 11:01 PM PDT:

To Peter - you can use YouSendIt to send big files with a link to an email system - 100 MB free - 2GB if you pay.

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av da said on May 28, 2007 6:39 PM PDT:

i'm hotmail for life. i'm sure you can receive attatchments of any size with whatever free email provider you have.

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Timmy said on May 29, 2007 3:14 AM PDT:

Google's generousness has no limits, obviously. They always know how to make their users just that little bit happier :)

Thank you, Google!

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Colin said on June 27, 2007 3:19 PM PDT:

I think you geeks never leave proper instructions. What a waste of my time. When will you ever learn. You're all DONKS !

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Anonymous said on July 3, 2007 8:27 AM PDT:

It does not make any difference

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Anonymous said on August 11, 2007 10:32 PM PDT:

Grr. Trying to send myself a 35 MB file and am unable to do so.

Allow us to send larger files. 20 MB is not enough.

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Anonymous said on August 11, 2007 10:33 PM PDT:

By the way, as a note to whomever is in charge of this page: I am using Firefox 2.0.0.4 for Mac, and this page keeps loading and reloading itself, as though it has some authentication problem. I have cookies enabled.

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Anonymous said on August 16, 2007 4:57 AM PDT:

Thats great !!!!
I am just trying to upload 20mb file to confirm coz i still cant believe it.
Thank you google.

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esteve said on October 5, 2007 4:18 AM PDT:

the bar could be great...

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Anonymous said on October 6, 2007 8:11 PM PDT:

this is very nice but the problem with uploading attachment in gmail is the speed. it takes for ever to upload a big file. yahoo is much faster...

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daemon said on November 18, 2007 3:13 PM PDT:

This is great :) Love the way some people complain about the free unlimited storage email provider doubling the size of its email attachments. The glass isn't quite full huh?

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esgee said on December 10, 2007 12:54 AM PDT:

i ma facing difficulties in attaching a ppt of size 5MB on gmail.

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evansad said on December 11, 2007 7:08 AM PDT:

Its too little.

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Manoj Kumar Jha said on December 24, 2007 11:50 PM PDT:

thanks to google .... :-)

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Anonymous said on January 3, 2008 1:32 AM PDT:

:( every time i made attachment >10MB i get this message in gmail

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 16): 552 5.2.3 Message exceeds maximum fixed size (10485760)

do i need to have any setting changed to make 20 MB upload effective ??

waiting for reply asap :(:(

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Anonymous said on February 1, 2008 1:46 PM PDT:

Are you using gmail's smtp server, or your ISP's?

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satellite tv said on March 17, 2008 10:19 AM PDT:

thats nice google

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Daniel said on March 20, 2008 8:58 PM PDT:

Yes, a progress bar for the upload of attachments would be really great. No big free e-mail service provider implemented this yet.

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Anonymous said on April 24, 2008 4:11 AM PDT:

Useful addition.

Obviously size will increase eventually. The others will have to catch up, forced to change. Good.

Still takes a while. Progress bar is essential.
Get with it.

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sandhu said on April 25, 2008 12:39 AM PDT:

just to know kinds of attachments send using gmail...like zip file ,pdf ,gif

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mivadar said on May 24, 2008 2:01 PM PDT:

I'm actually a bit torn about this - I find it both useful and dangerous.

Useful, because, let's face it, I often need to send files that are approaching 20 MB in size (even bigger pdf documents) to collaborators, etc.

Dangerous, because most e-mail systems can't handle e-mails and traffic like this.

e.g. A single e-mail this size would block my work account, and downloading e-mails through POP or similar can become a serious pain with a slower connection.

(Not to speak of occasional work e-mails I send people who are in the field and operate via satellite downlink ... a few well-meaning e-mails like this from friends and family would bankrupt an expedition.)

People with small inboxes need to be protected, and one can't always control what one receives.

I would find it more "educationally useful" to try to get people used to uploading bigger files somewhere online and sending the link by e-mail.
In this case the recipient is more in control (to download it or not).

Oh, and if you are going to send me pictures of your neighbour's grandmother's cousin's garbage man's nephew's dog's newborn son, please either make them a reasonable size or put them on a website and give me a link to them.

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BiZZoTTo said on September 10, 2008 6:56 AM PDT:

I'm having problems to download big files from my GMail account... files around 10mb... it finish incompletely.

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ashu said on September 25, 2008 8:58 PM PDT:

Awesome....:) now i don ve to go to any other site to upload stuff....

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Mark said on October 2, 2008 3:58 PM PDT:

I think that they are being really nice to give us 20 MB. And the inbox size is awesome! I'm sure that it will grow more in time.

You have to pay for these services in most other email providers.

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Nilanka said on October 20, 2008 11:44 PM PDT:

i can't send my blog link via gmail. plz help me......

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Anonymous said on November 7, 2008 6:47 PM PDT:

I think that 20 mb is little more but its like than Gmail.

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Aftab said on November 12, 2008 6:24 AM PDT:

Thank you so much. It really saved all of us the hassles and saves us from worries. Google Da best!

Keep rocking Google!

Our prayers with you all the way.

Cheers!

Aftab
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Anonymous said on November 19, 2008 5:52 PM PDT:

GMX free webmail provides 50 mb attachments limit. Surely this represents the minimum that google should provide. 20mb is far too low. If google provied 50mb+ attachments, I would swap from gmx mail to googlemail for certain.

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Anonymous said on December 19, 2008 11:09 AM PDT:

I have seen a number of people on this post mention that they don't understand why there limitations in the first place. Basically if everyone on the web could send 50-300 MB attachments, then everyone would be complaining about how slow the speed of surfing the net is. Think about it like a big pipeline that has a bunch of smaller pipelines that feed into it. You can only jam so much down a pipeline at any given time before it gets really backed up and this is basically what would happen if everyone could send attachments as big as they wanted. You can thank the US government for regulating our internet speeds for us, when it is common place in Europe for residential speeds to be in the upwards of anywhere from 30-50 Mbps.

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vicky said on December 20, 2008 7:03 AM PDT:

@ peter huesken

Quote: "crop-pictures-on-the-fly" feature

tats wat picasa's for...

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Anonymous said on January 1, 2009 6:22 AM PDT:

I would love to see 100mb+ attachment size becasue I like to use cron and to zip up my websites and back it up (e-mail it) to g-mail. If my site gets hacked then the hackers can't get to my backups (something they can do if I use FTP)

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Anonymous said on January 20, 2009 11:55 AM PDT:

I guess there is some freedom as far as limit is concerned. The other day i was able to attach a file of size 23mb and to my surprise it worked.

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Anonymous said on February 10, 2009 9:13 AM PDT:

@ Anonymous [19th December 2008]

'it is common place in Europe for residential speeds to be in the upwards of anywhere from 30-50 Mbps.'

Of course it isn't.
That's the most blatantly 'made up' thing I've seen in weeks.

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Anonymous said on February 16, 2009 10:34 AM PDT:

i think this is shit attachment average and why my friend we are not able to send even a singel photo now. 10 mb is the size of one photo. So please do something, for more than 2 years you are taking complaints, for how long do you think you will be receiving complaints and then do something for good of net users.

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Alex Chitu said on February 16, 2009 10:52 AM PDT:

Resize your photos before sending them using Gmail. It's not necessary to send 10 MP photos unless they'll be printed at a high resolution. Install IrfanView or other free image editor, resize your photos to 1600 x 1200 and you'll be able to attach more photos. If you want to attach many photos, use Flickr, Picasa Web Albums or other photo sharing sites.

Remember that Yahoo Mail asks you to upgrade to the paid version if you want 20 MB attachments, so you should think a little bit before being ungrateful and disrespectful.

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Anonymous said on March 6, 2009 12:07 PM PDT:

I want everything for free, and no restrictions, and the freedom to complain about anything I wish.

Sheesh.

Use a file sharing service, or an FTP or HTTP solution. Don't email large amounts of data.

Be creative and find other more reasonable solutions, instead of using email for data management, backups, file sharing, etc.

Email is for communication. It's not meant for high volume data throughput. Education and awareness can solve all of your problems, and you have complete control over what you can learn.

It's FREE. And even most paid email services have restrictions in place for email attachments. If you want your email service to be somewhat responsive, and deliveries to be timely, use email for EMAIL. Email is not designed or intended for data management.

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Jedi Master Sara Ye'Wo said on March 13, 2009 4:49 AM PDT:

now we have bar progress! yay!

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eAi-nEt said on May 9, 2009 11:58 PM PDT:

thank you , But I want to upload 100 MB what eva it file , the 20 MB in this days is so small

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resveratrol said on May 20, 2009 2:33 AM PDT:

can we attach .exe file in gmail becouse gmail is not allowing me to do so

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Krishna Kanth Reddy said on May 20, 2009 10:24 AM PDT:

yes you can attach, but rename the file extension as some other for eg. as .txt etc. Then only you can send that.....otherwise you cant do it.