Members of the UH community may wish to inform colleagues not affiliated with UH of this 7MB e-mail size limit. Attachments are usually the cause of large e-mail messages since they can contain lengthy documents, graphics, or other media files. However, the attachment will still have to be very substantial to exceed the size limit. That limit involves the amount of UNIX disk space the files under your ITS username can occupy. By using a utility to compress your data, you may be able to reduce the size of your file to below the 7MB limit.
Compression software is available via the Web.
Both of the compression software are free for evaluation purposes with a fee for continued use. If the compressed file is less than the 7MB size limit, it can then be sent via e-mail. If you are using Pine on the UNIX system, you will need to upload the compressed file to your UNIX account before sending it. Remember that there is a 20 MB disk space limit for UNIX accounts. After sending the compressed file, the recipient would have to uncompress the file.