PDF/Attachment File Size Limitation

Question: Does anyone know of a specific upper limit on email attachment file sizes, or how to overcome them? I love that iPhone email supports viewing PDFs, and got some smaller ones to be delivered and display just fine, but when I tried to email a 10MB PDF to my iPhone it really caused a mess (first attempt locked up my iPhone and required a reset, second attempt the iPhone email client had trouble retrieving the whole PDF from the POP server). I finally gave up.
Note to Apple (hope you're watching...): Please support large email attachments, especially PDF. FYI: the 10MB PDF I was trying to push to the iPhone was in fact the iPhone User's Guide that I downloaded from the Apple web site -- too bad this "bug" prevents an iPhone user from having the iPhone User Guide on the iPhone itself, huh? Also, please consider adding password support for locked email attachments (like password-protected PDFs).

Thanks, but what sort of infrastructure are you referring to? There are 8500 rows of data for this invoice at three levels which is not large, but some fields are 240 characters long.
I'm not getting an Out of Memory type of error. In fact, I'm not getting any errors, just that there is no output. pdf-compression is set to true. What else could I check?

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