Naive Question

[MikeyC]

I usually download things at home, but is it possible to download something to my PC at work and then just simply email the downloaded file to my email at home?

[Sparks!]

Yes you can do, but depending on the size of the files, and your email account, depends on whether or not it will send.

If it's a large attachment your mailing server might reject it as you'll only be permitted a certain amount with addresses such as hot mail and NTL World etc etc..
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[MikeyC]

thats interesting, im with aol at home, will the it depend on the account I send it from or the account I send it to? Think the limit is less than say 30 Mb?

[Sparks!]

Not sure what AOL's limit is, but from experience when I was on AOL last year, I one emailed a whole CD Album from work to home in MP3 format, so AOL must be really big so you should be alright there.

It would depend on the receiving account as to whether it will accept it or not, either way it will normally send with no problems from any account.

Best bet is to try it out, as your with AOL I think it will 99% work.
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[hush]

It depends on the e-mail server as to whether it will send or not. Generally email services set the sending limit to the same as the receiving limit. Some limit what you can send, but not what you can receive.

An ISP's limits will be much better than a free webmail account.

[BIKELESS STEVE]

If your office server has FTP service running then if file too big for attachment then paste it in the relevent directory (ask your IT dept which one it is and the IP Address + username & password) - then from home at dos prompt (whilst connected to internet) FTP [ip address], enter username & password, when logged on type BIN then GET xxxxxx (xxxxx being the filename). Simple No ?

[hush]

As a thought, this discussion is really a little redundant. If you download a 30MB file at work you will spend that time downloading the file, then have to upload the 30MB file from work to your e-mail server, then download the 30MB file at home. Taking you 3 times as long as just downloading it at home. So why not just take the URL home and download at home in the same amount of time it would take you to receive the e-mail?

[Sparks!]

[hush]

The other thing is it depends on where you work, but will they not frown on you using company equipment to download and e-mail your personal downloads?

[Dazed]

Files generally increase in size when e-mailed too, something to do with the encoding IIRC. Have you considered buying one of those USB keyring drives?

[Adam_P]