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Automatically upload "too large" email attachments to onedrive/sharepoint with public link
If i drag a 50mb file to an email, outlook.exe says "no" and tells me to use some upload site. If i do the same thing at gmail.com, instead of rejecting the file, it uploads it to google-drive an...
- with 6 votes in 1 year, it will never get added. that uservoice is like yelling into a well....posts with 6000 votes have not be implemented, this one will never be
Yes by admin, but I agree! Using links are more efficient any day
Although i would think storage space from microsoft for email or onedrive should be at the same rate
If my IT increased the max to 150mb, that might help internal sharing, but would external parties be able to receive or would it get blocked by their mail system as too large?
adam deltingerI hate gmail with a passion, but i'd rather use gmail it for larger files then waste my time going to onedrive, upload the file there, then waste my time putting the link into an email somewhere else.
Microsoft really needs to connect these 2 simple dots...but since they don't pay any attention to customers our the uservoice site, this will never change
- Yeah, that’s correct! In their end they must allow to receive the actual filesize!
Also there are other caveats!
You can read more about it here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2015/04/15/office-365-now-supports-larger-email-messages-up-to-150-mb/
As I said, sending links are way better and keeps it to 1 version as well instead of making copies!
I’d suggest you upload your bigger files to onedrive and attach it in Outlook from there! It should then attach it as a link
Adam