What happend to emails that are too large on a mac
Sometimes when I send an email just before the progress bar reaches 100% a message says the email is too large and it disappears. Where does the email go because I need to retrieve it to edit it?
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Just guessing, may be you're on a slow connection and it takes too long to send the attachment so that the server runs into a time out.
What is the size of the attachment you're trying to send?
It was an inserted jpeg of 25KB. The email wasn't more than two lines of text.
That actually sounds like a problem with anti virus scanning of outgoing mail.
What I want to know is where does the email go? When this has happened before it often turns up again some hours later and I'm usually able to send it a second time without a problem.
IF it is an anti virus problem, then it might be in limbo until the anti virus gets it's act together. When you click send, the mail is assembled as a mail until them, there should be a copy in the drafts folder (auto save is set to 10 minutes by default I think.) Otherwise the mail is simply a temp file in the temp folder.
Do you have an anti virus installed?
Thank you for this advice. Where would this Temp file be located?
Regarding anti-virus, I am using a Mac and I don't think I need one.
it will be located where ever a mac stores temp files. I have no idea really. The last mac I used in anger has a black and white 8 inch screen. It was a Macintosh I think about 1991