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Forwarding file size issues

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naum.dude2
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Hi to all! I've recently decided try using Thunderbird to manage my multiple mailboxes. I faced 2 problems: 1) When I forwarded email the attachments size in total must have been 23mb. But when i forwarded Thunderbird warned me that size is 31,5mb. What's the deal with that? 2) after ignoring and sending email anyway I received a notification that it didn't save in Sent folder.. in Fact it did. In any case the message is disturbing. 3) After sending Thunderbird left a Draft of the same mail thread.

Hope you can help me. All settings in Thunderbird are default.

Naum

Hi to all! I've recently decided try using Thunderbird to manage my multiple mailboxes. I faced 2 problems: 1) When I forwarded email the attachments size in total must have been 23mb. But when i forwarded Thunderbird warned me that size is 31,5mb. What's the deal with that? 2) after ignoring and sending email anyway I received a notification that it didn't save in Sent folder.. in Fact it did. In any case the message is disturbing. 3) After sending Thunderbird left a Draft of the same mail thread. Hope you can help me. All settings in Thunderbird are default. Naum
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sfhowes
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The encoding of a message adds about 33% to the size, so that a message with a 24MB attachment ends up as a message that is 32MB. Gmail has a limit of 25MB, but if you upload to Drive, or any other file hosting service, the limit is much higher, and then you just need to send a link.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6584?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en