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July 2nd, 2007 at 12:17 am

Mail Server Timing Out?

If you currently send large attachments with your e-mails, I am sure you have suffered the problem of having your SMTP server time out on you, or if you use web mail, have simply been presented with an error message stating the file is too large.
In either case, if you are on a data-limited internet connection, such mistakes can easily eat away into your monthly allowance.

As I have a few web sites, one possibility I can use is to upload the file to one of my servers, and include a link in the e-mail to point to the file. However, there are two problems with this method… 1) I then use up my server’s bandwidth allowance 2) Unless you already own a site of your own, getting access to a server USED to be difficult.

So, Driveway have come up with a solution - Online File Sharing. Check out the site, and see just how easy it is to upload a file (up to 500 megabytes in size!), and then simply include it’s address in your e-mail. You do not need to register, and when I tried out the service, the servers were able to receive my test file at the maximum my PC could send it.
Of course you can use the links you create outside of e-mails, should you blog for example, you can use it there.

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