Both the sender's and recipient's ISPs place limits on maximum message
size. Any message must be under both limits.

Also, encoding necessary to send attachments adds about 40% overhead.
So if the ISP limits were 1 MB, the largest attachment you can send
without the break apart option would be about 700 KB.

For some additional information, see:
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"cw" wrote in message
...
My friend is using Outlook Express 6.0 and tried unchecking the break
apart
messages. However when he went to send with attachement, a message
appeared
saying the email was too long for one note.

We exchanged a very small 54kb wave file without a problem. It just
seems
the larger files are getting broken appart.

Thanks for any additional suggestions.


"cw" wrote:

A friend is sending me a .wav file as an attachement, however the
email shows
up in my inbox as a number of separate emails filled with a solid
block of
random characters.

I suspect there is something going on with my friend's outlook as I
can send
.wav attachemnts to other people without problem.

Any explanation as to why this occurs and how to fix it?

Thanks,
chris