Gmail users can now receive 50-MB mails
03 Mar 2017
Google has announced that it has doubled the size limit of emails that could be received by Gmail users from 25MB to 50 MB. However, this does not apply to sent mails, the current size limit of 25MB would remain.
Essentially this meant a Gmail user would now be able to receive larger sized emails from other clients that allowed sending emails of size up to 50MB.
According to commentators, the move would be welcomed considering, that attachments often ended up exceeding the earlier size limit. It may be pointed out however, that users who wanted to exchange larger files could always choose to use the search giant's Drive service, which was already integrated with Gmail.
According to the company, the change would come into effect for all users over the coming days. It remained to be seen though whether the size cap on emails sent from its Gmail client would be similarly increased.
"Sending and receiving attachments is an important part of email exchanges. While Google Drive offers a convenient way to share files of any size, sometimes you need to receive large files as direct email attachments. So starting today, you will be able to receive emails of up to 50MB directly", Google announced in a blogpost on Thursday.
With the change, users would be able to receive large files like Powerpoint presentations or Adobe files.
Also, Google recently pushed out a new update to Gmail that barred users from attaching JavaScript files to their mails. The update went live on 13 February, 2017 and blocked all .js files from being uploaded and sent over mail.
To send or share .js files, users could still upload them on Google Drive, Google Cloud Storage or other storage solutions and then turn on sharing on that file.
