Nov 25, 2017 In this case, we suggest that you ensure Outlook is the default mail app set on your device. To do this, follow the steps provided on this support article. Click on the 2010 tab to view the appropriate steps. If you enabled Mail in your iCloud settings and have an iCloud email address, you can use Mail Drop to send large files via iCloud. Mail Drop allows you to send files up to 5GB in size per file. You can send these attachments from iCloud.com or from the Mail app on your iOS device (iOS 9.2 or later) or Mac (OS X 10.11 or later).
There is a limitation on the size of message you can send overthe mail system. If, for example, you want to includea large file (above 32KB) in a message,the recipient may find that part of the file has been lost(truncated) during the transfer, although no error message will appear.You can find out the size of a file by entering:
!l filename
See the discussion on working with files and directoriesin the Operating System User's Guide or thels(C)manual pagefor more information about the l command.
One solution is to compress and encodea file before including it in your message.Compressing a file reduces its size by about 50%; encoding the file increasesthe size of the compressed file by about 30%, so youend up with a compressed and encoded file that is about twothirds the size of the original. If this still leaves a filethat is too large to send, you should, if possible, split the file intosmaller files before compressing and encoding them.
The reason why you should encode a compressed file before you send itis because compressed files may include characters that are notrecognizable to SCO Shell Mail.Although you may be ableto send the compressed file, it may well be truncated orincorrectly transmitted by SCO Shell Mail.
If you are a SCO Shell Mail user, the encoding of a file is doneautomatically for you when you attach the file to a message. So,if you want to send a compressed file to someone, you should alwaysattach it to the message instead of including it in the message.If, for some reason, you need to include the file in a message,you should follow the procedure given in``Including information from other applications in a message'.
Because you can only compress a file from thecommand line(that is, there is no SCO Shell command for doing this),enter the following UNIX system commandsfrom within SCO Shell using an exclamation mark.
Large File Games
Assume that you have a file called myfile that youwant to send via mail to one of your colleagues.To compress the file, type:
!compress -c myfile > myfile.Z
The compressed file is named myfile.Z;attach this file to the mail message to be sent, but donot edit its contents.
Qq File Sharing
The recipient of your mail message can recover a copy ofthe original file by saving the attachment to afile (here named mmsg), and entering the following command:
!uudecode -s mmsg > myfile
Large File Free
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