Can't receive email with big attachments

My nephew has sent me an email, to <<[email protected]>> with a number of very large photo attachments. I'm on vacation and trying to retrieve my email over a slow broadband connection at the local public library. My Mail is stuck trying to download my nephew's email, and won't download anything else. I can see my mail on Mac.com,, but I would rather use my Mail software. I hope that when I return home, my broadband connection will be capacious enough to download this email, but I'm not sure. Any suggestions would be really welcome. Thanks, John Vialet
Powerbook and G-4 Desktop Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Well, I have the same problem. I tried to delete the specific account and redo it - but the ** email was still there. I've gone to the webmail site for the account, and deleted it there. It's deleted from my laptop, but keeps coming back on my iPhone. So, my iPhone is set to show 25 emails, but I don't understand what you mean by "send yourself 25 messages". Sounds like your solution works, and I'd sure like to try it. Looks like Apple needs to come up with an easier solution too. Thanks.

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Can't send emails with picture attachments

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I have tried a battery pull while the phone is on, registered on the network again and had the service books resent and nothing works.
Anyone else have this problem or have any ideas of how to fix it?

Can you please provide more information? Are you getting any error message when attaching or sending the pictures? Are you able to send other types of attachments? Is this happening for all email accounts on your BlackBerry?
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Well, I have the same problem. I tried to delete the specific account and redo it - but the ** email was still there. I've gone to the webmail site for the account, and deleted it there. It's deleted from my laptop, but keeps coming back on my iPhone. So, my iPhone is set to show 25 emails, but I don't understand what you mean by "send yourself 25 messages". Sounds like your solution works, and I'd sure like to try it. Looks like Apple needs to come up with an easier solution too. Thanks.

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Since i moved all my accounts to my new airbook (OS X 10.8.2) everything works fine BUT i am not able to send emails with pdf attachments.I have an exchange and a mac.account - but they both won`t work.
The emails stay put in the local ausgang? exit box and won`t move away unless i delete them.
i checked the accounts, the activity - all says it works fine - but it doesn`t!
Maybe in the *deep* of my mac is one thing that says no pdf - but where can i find it?
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it tries to send the email for about five minutes and than gives the message *server doesn't work* you want to try another? repeat? or later?
when i change the server e.g. from exchange to mac - tries again and without further notice i find the message in the outbox - even when i click that one and *send* again - nothing changes......
I already tried to name the attachments in.pdf - i also change the pdf to jpeg - nothing works - all emails i write after that go immediately to the outbox - so when i want to send messages at all i need to delete the ones with the attachment or send the other ones manually
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TS3276 receive email with .dat attachments

I have begun receiving emails with .dat files attached from my coworkers who use Outlook. Somehow, these files replace the attached files that my coworkers intended to send and Mail doesn't seem to be able to open/process them. I would really appreciate any advice on how to overcome this as I am starting to be pressured to give up my Mac.

.DAT files is a file has arbitrary data and is not associated with any one particular program or application. When you see a file with a .XLS extension, you know it’s referring to an Excel file, and so on. But with .DAT files, you have to figure out how to open it yourself and it may not be the same program each time.
The best way to open a .DAT file is to use the program that created it. You may want to ask the sender to send it in a different format, like .pdf.
Winmail.dat files come from those Microsoft Outlook or Exchange programs and are some sort of archive method. Somewhere in outlook they get automatically created when forwarding email messages and Mac users have long wondered what they are and how to open them. Of course Windows users have no idea what they are either and think it’s all the receivers issue when we say we never got an attachment.
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Hi guys,
I have a strange problem with Mail 4.4: I have multiple email accounts that I manage through Mail - all work fine except my gmail account, which stopped receiving emails about a week ago. Here are some details:
1. The account constantly shows the "busy" icon (rotating circle) but Mail Activity window does not show anything.
2. I can send email from the account - but not receive any emails for this account with Mail.
3. I access the same account through my iPad and iPhone - both work perfectly fine (i.e. get all emails), it's just Mail that does not receive.
4. The Connection Doctor shows no errors - all lights are "green"
5. I can access the corresponding gmail account through Safari without problem - all incoming emails are shown correctly
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First time I can answer my own question
I did some more research and found a thread about the issue of large emails getting stuck and reloaded into Recovered Messages folder:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2153401
This one did the trick for me (posted by Miguel Lira):
If you're experiencing the "Recovered Messages" issue it may be related to offline processes that are failing when you open iMail. For me the fix was to open a terminal window and delete all the files in the following folder: ~/Library/Mail/[email protected]/.OfflineCache

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A friend sends an email to me with a large attachment. It is rejected and he gets the following response.
{edited for privacy}:
206.46.232.11 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 552 5.3.4 a message size of 20483 kilobytes exceeds the size limit of 20480 kilobytes computed for this transaction
The message is small, but the attachment is large. Is something wrong or am I really limited to receiving relatively tiny attachments?
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First of all, I wouldn't consider 20 MB to be "relatively tiny," but I suppose that's open to interpretation.
Taken from Verizon's Support site:
How large of an attachment can I send or receive through email?
When you are using email, the Verizon web-based email application, you can send attachments that are up to 8 MB (megabytes) in size. Emails sent using 3rd party email programs like Outlook, Lotus Notes, or Eudora, however; can contain attachments up to 20 MB....
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I have 2 email accounts with Bell Sympatico. The owner account is functioning fine; the 2ndary account no longer can receive email, but can still send. I get a message saying
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8. Under My incoming mail (POP3) server, type in : pophm.sympatico.ca
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I am tearing my hair out. Yes, there is that clumsy webmail workaround, but I want things to work properly, and the Sympatico worker bees are 8000 miles away...Suggestions?

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the "old ones" that have the same settings since Sympatico started 10 years ago. Here are the information would need to setup your Symaptico e-mail in Mail:
Username: b1**##
Password: access password
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Outgoing mail (SMTP): smtp1.sympatico.ca
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Port server 110 for Incoming (POP3)
The other Sympatico e-mail is the enhance one with MSN. The settings are differents and the authentification is different. Any new Sympatico accounts since June 2004 are on that new plaform. Here are the information would need to setup Mail:
Username: [email protected]
Password: e-mail password
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Outgoing mail (SMTP): smtphm.sympatico.ca
Verify that your server is set to requires anthentiation with agin your Sympatico e-mail and Sympatico password;
Both servers, Outgoing and Incoming, require a secure connection (SSL)
If you are not sure witch is what try to login online at: http://www.sympaticomail.sympatico.ca it will tell you if can upgrade to new enhance e-mail or if you sign in like a Hotmail account if you are already enhance.
I hope this help....
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You can't "exclude them from your Inbox" because Thunderbird can only work on what is in the Inbox; so by the time it can do anything, about such messages, it's already too late.
My filter dialogue offers me an option to filter on attachments. It goes away when I restart in Safe Mode but I haven't yet been able work out which extension is doing it. Such a feature might allow you to automatically filter and dispose of such messages.
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FiltaQuilla, 1.2.0, false, [email protected] 
Identity Chooser, 1.8.5, false, [email protected] 
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Launchy, 4.4.0, false, [email protected] 
LightningButton, 1.5.3, false, [email protected] 
Mail Merge, 3.7.1, false, [email protected] 
Mail Summaries, 2.1.3, false, [email protected] 
MailHops, 0.8.2, false, [email protected] 
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Remove Duplicate Messages (Alternate), 0.3.9, false, {a300a000-5e21-4ee0-a115-9ec8f4eaa92b} 
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Signature Switch, 1.6.12, false, {2ab1b709-ba03-4361-abf9-c50b964ff75d} 
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Background: Working in corporate environment with Exchange with Mailbox limits.
From time to time I'm running out of quota, then I need to move Mails locally (by Smart Mailbox) or delete them.
Insted of doing this reactive I would love to see Emails marked in color (rules?) so I can take care of them while I read them so I don't need to touch them twice.
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P.s. Using Mail, not Outlook.

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All,
I have searched the Verizon site, withou luck, trying to find the maximum incoming email size that Verizon will accept. I recently had a colleague send me a pdf file attachment that was 15.4 MB and it was bounced by Verizon. Everyone seems to be locked into the maximum size attachement you can SEND without ever quoting the maximum size you can RECEIVE. In fact the Verizon support area is totally worthless on this issue. The FAQ they have that is SPECIFICALLY titled "How large of an attachment can I send or receive through email?", only addresses the maximum size you can SEND.
So, does anyone here have any idea? It obviously isn't 20MB send and 20MB receive.
Thanks in Advance,
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Additional data... I had my colleague send the 15.4 MB pdf file to my gmail account where I forwarded it to my Verizon account. The results of the forwarding was the following message:
"Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 552 552 5.3.4 a message size of 20483 kilobytes exceeds the size limit of 20480 kilobytes computed for this transaction (state 18)."
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"Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 552 552 5.3.4 a message size of 20483 kilobytes exceeds the size limit of 20480 kilobytes computed for this transaction (state 18).
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I seem to never tire of saying this. It was for Apple when they first announced 10.7 to disclose this. Yes, it was widely reported -- or rather, rumored -- but not by Apple. And many people who have gotten caught by this assumed that Apple itself would have told them beforehand about the loss of this very important feature which they had come to rely on. As far as I know, not even in fine print, does this appear anywhere on the Lion announcement or any of its links.
I am not saying Apple had to continue Rosetta in Lion, or forever, just that if it was going to be dropped, it should have been made known.
As relative "insiders" we should not forget that many people don't have the time, habit or interest to do this kind of research. I think it is a breach of trust that Apple has never directly made this announcement or given people the opportunity to decide beforehand if giving up their PPC apps for a new OS is a worthwhile tradeoff.

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