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  • From: "Kurt Schlatzer" <kurt AT kurtschlatzer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Attacments Frequently Not Forwarding
  • Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 09:07:05 -0400

Susan LaBarre wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> Perhaps someone can help me solve this mystery. 8 out of 10 times,
> when I send an attachment from my Earthlink email in Outlook, it gets
> stripped out by the time the email arrives at its destination. I
> never know when attachments will forward so I often end up uploading
> the material to my server and sending URLs in the email so the
> recipient can access the document via the web... which is a real
> pain.

It might be a pain to send a link, but many consider sending a link to be
best practice.

The file size of your attachment may have a lot to to with it. Many ISPs are
starting to filter out attachments that exceed their designated limit, like
1mb for example.

Kurt







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