Mail File Size

I'm trying to send an email with a large PDF document attached. The file in Finder is shown as 31 MB. When I attach it, Mail shows the file as 30 MB. Then, when I hit send, I get a message that says it couldn't be sent because the message size is 40 MB and the message size limit is 32 MB. I have nothing else in the message except a few lines of text. Help?

calql8 wrote:
Mail shows the file as 30 MB. Then, when I hit send, I get a message that says it couldn't be sent because the message size is 40 MB
Sounds about right.
Mail systems were designed for text-only transfers. File attachments are binary, so, to be transferred safely, they need to be encoded, usually in base64. Encoding binary into base64 increases the file size by something like 135%. This is the figure you need to keep in mind whenever sending attachments.
Btw, sending such a large attachments is not very polite. Anything over 5MB (I prefer 1MB) should not be sent by e-mail. There are quite a few alternatives—chat, file services (Dropbox, MediaFire, RapidShare, etc).

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