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Sending Attachments With ‘Mail =
Drop’
Rita’s iDevice Advice for July 31, =
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If you have ever tried to mail a video =
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your iPhone to a friend, but the Mail app said the file was too big and =
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should try sending it with ‘Mail Drop. Mail Drop is a feature that =
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with the Mail app on many iOS devices, Mac computers and through a web =
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pointed to iCloud.com. The email account you are using must also =
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the IMAP standard. Mail Drop temporarily uses iCloud server space, =
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of the mail provider’s servers to store file attachments up to five =
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size. When you get a message that an attachment is too large to =
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normally and you select Mail Drop as an alternative, the Mail app =
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file to iCloud, and then provides your mail recipient with a link or =
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download it there. This way, the shared file does not actually go =
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the regular mail servers as an attachment. The Mail Drop =
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expire after 30 days and do not count against the storage limits for =
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account; basic iCloud accounts include a free five gigabytes and you can =
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more if needed. You can store up to a terabyte of Mail Drop=20
attachments. Apple is not the only company that offers this type =
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workaround. Google has a similar tool that lets Gmail users stash =
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files to be shared on the Google Drive connected to their =
accounts. =20
Microsoft’s OneDrive service likewise helps Outlook.com users share =
videos and=20
other big attachments with email correspondents. If you do not =
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service with a built-in option for handling hefty attachments, try a=20
file-sharing service like Dropbox or Box. With this approach, you =
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the file to your account and then send a private link to the content by=20
email. Dropbox can also work directly with Yahoo Mail and Gmail, =
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other some services.