On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 22:55, John Jason Jordan<[email protected]> wrote: > I must use PSU's e-mail servers, even for my Comcast account, or I > won't be able to send e-mail when I am on campus. > > Recent "upgrades" to the university e-mail system changed the maximum > e-mail attachment from 20 MB to 8 MB. > > Side question 1: How does this benefit the university? Doesn't the > entire e-mail and all its attachments merely pass through the > university's computers? Am I correct in thinking that the 20 ~ 8 MB > never resides on the university's servers? > > This is seriously annoying to me. I cannot get files from my professors > because they are too big to pass through the university's e-mail > system. > > As a workaround, I am looking for web-based file storage sites. All I > have found so far are unacceptable. > > Does anyone know of such a site (free) that does not require an e-mail > address so they can spam me forever with requests that I upgrade to a > for-pay account?
why not use yousendit with a throw-away email account? they're not going anywhere (ie teach once & forget) because people like my company pay them and have been paying them for their service for years. yes, they are chatty to your registered email address (even as a paying customer), but no, you don't have to read their crap! if i knew another service to recommend i would, but that one is easy to use for recipients and is all i've ever used. second alternative: you run linux, why not ssh tunnel to a distant system that can talk to comcast's mail server? i'd offer to set you up an end to that tunnel on my home (comcast-connected) always-on machine, but i am moving in a month and will probably not be a comcast customer anymore after that (and will anyway be down for a bit during the move). luck++; _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
