email sending takes forever

jayboy · #1 Feb 9, 2007, 03:10 PM

when i send an e mail with out ex 6 with a photo it takes 20 minutes to send. sending text e mails are fine. is this normal?

Lord_Darkclaw · Feb 9, 2007, 03:40 PM

No, it shouldn't take long - it takes a couple of minutes to upload the photos for sending, but once they are ready to send, they won't take much longer than a regular email.

I have no idea why it's not working properly.

Curlyben · Feb 9, 2007, 03:42 PM

Really depends on the size of the attachment, photos can be VERY large, and your connections upload rate, normally around 2-300k for DSL

Jay, what speed is your connection as this maybe the root of your problems ?

jayboy · Feb 11, 2007, 02:15 PM

56kpbs

Curlyben · Feb 11, 2007, 02:38 PM

So you are on a dial up connection and you are wondering why it takes along time to send e-mail attachments.

Due to your low upload speed this is to be expected.
There is very little that you can do to improve this situation, barring upgrading to DSL/Cable.
A text only mail is a few K in size, but once you start adding atachments the size gets bigger quickly.
A digital photo can be anything up to a few MEG in size. Now trying to send a large file on dial up WILL take a long time.
The only thing you could do would be to reduce the size of your attachments, but even this isn't really a solution.

I hope this makes things clearer.



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