Many of our clients have come to us wondering how they can email large document(s), a Brief for example, ranging from 5MB to 500MB in size. There are a multitude of factors when it comes to sending email attachments; how large an attachment will your email client allow? How large an attachment will your ISP allow? Will your recipient be able to receive your email and attachment through their email client and ISP? The list goes on and on... Providers like Gmail allow file sizes up to 25MB however this doesn’t account for the file size limit of your intended recipient's mail provider. If it is too large, it could be blocked or removed from the email.
Fortunately there are plenty of services offering a solution to this problem and YouSentIt is just one of them. YouSendIt provides various methods of sending these files through their Outlook plugin, desktop software and web browser application. The Outlook plugin allows you to send document(s) as normal and once you are ready to send YouSendIt takes over. The desktop application can be used to quickly send files with a simple right-click or drag-&-drop. For files transfers on the go simply log into your account through a web browser.
When sending sensitive files, security is a concern. YouSentIt utilises industry standard data protection of 128-bit SSL encryption and boasts its seven-layer security strategy of Secure, Reliable Data Center Facilities, Network Access Control, User Authentication, Data Storage, Date transmission, data retention and auditing. For more details visit their website’s security overview.
YouSendIt offers 4 plans to cover a multitude of needs and while the price plans cover frequent flyers there is also the Lite option for sending files under 50MB.
While the main focus of this article has been on emailing large documents there are many other popular services used for online file sharing, for example Dropbox, which is great for syncing shared files.
