Finding an alternative to attaching large files to emails

[Ogi]

Hi,

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

My staff have the need to send large emails (from 1Mb to 20MB) to our factories (we're in the UK, factories in China).

The factories emails can't accept large emails (depends on the factory) and I try to educate them on attachments but it's not working, they are just ignoring me!

Is there a service for the following:-

To register as a company for billing
Have separate areas for each factory
Upload files to said factory area
Send factory a link in an email so they can download the file
Delete the existing files after x days

If so, can you provide a link? I don't want to buy a server, put it in an ISP building an look after it myself!

Cheers,
Carl.

 

[JockMullin]

Hi, Carl


If you Google FTP Hosting Service, you will find a zillion of them. I have no basis to recommend any one in particular, except that some of my custs use NetworkSolutions.com, which is professional and very reliable but not necessarily the cheapest.

This is the best solution because you can set up separate folders for each factory and then just email links to the files. FTP is a lot faster than email attachments because the encoding of attachments for emails effectively doubles the amount of data being transmitted. And the reduced email traffic will benefit your email servers.

Jock

 

[58sniper]

what have you searched for?

[google]email attachment hosting[/google]

Pat Richard MVP

 

[ttraider]

If you need some security for your attachments, I would recommend that you talk to your ISP provider and they can set up an ftp site for you with different accounts and passwords. That is what we did here for our clients.

 

[58sniper]

Most of the attachment hosting places provide either end user authentication, where a user types in a username and password, or supplies that in the URL that the user clicks on. This is far easier for the users, and doesn't cause a ton of help desk calls.

Pat Richard MVP

 

[aich69]

http://www.yousendit.com/

Covers most of what you are looking for if I've got the right end of the stick?

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