Stephen Withers
Monday, 16 February 2009 07:18
IT Industry -
Market
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A variety of factors work against using email to deliver large files. The recipient's mail server may impose an arbitrary limit on the size of attachments, causing delivery to fail.
On servers with very limited inbox quotas, one large attachment may take up all the available space, resulting in any subsequent messages being bounced until that one is deleted from the mailbox.
And if the recipient is on a slow connection, a large and possibly unexpected attachment can be a thorough nuisance.
So it's much better to say "hi, the file's ready for you to download via this URL."
The way most services (eg
YouSendIt) implement this concept is with a single web form that lets you specify the file you want to send, the email address that it's going to, and a message for the recipient.
With MobileMe, it's a two-step process. First, you must upload the file to your iDisk.
Even though the online storage component of MobileMe can be used like any other volume connected to the Mac, you might as well use the web interface (which requires a manual logon unlike the desktop implementation) as the next step isn't available in the Finder.
What is that next step? Find out on
page 3.
