Trouble sending 2MB-3MB pdf attachments in Mail.

I have sent 2MB-3MB pdf scanned documents as attachments in Mail for years. In the last month, I can only get them to send intermittently. What can be done? OS X 10.6.8 running on iMac and MacBook Pro. Same problem on both computers. Not an email server issue.

What email provider? (iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Earthlink, Comcast, ATT, other)
What happens when they don't send? Are they just stuck in the Outbox?
Have you looked at using DropBox? Get a free DropBox account.
Drag the files into DropBox and you can get a link to send to your friend to download.
Another option with DropBox is to use a Shared folder. If you share files a lot with your friend, setup a Shared folder and everything in the folder will be shared. Obviously they also need to setup a free DropBox account (works on Windows). Just keep the folder size under the 2GB free limit.
For the future... OS X Yosemite Mail coming this fall, will offer a way to share files like DropBox.
Mail Drop allows you to attach large files via iCloud.
Attachments can be up to 5GB in size. -new feature in OS X 10.10 Yosemite Mail

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