Email Attachments

Email File Attachment Limits

Large email attachments clog up email servers and drive up storage costs

Most IT departments have felt the pain of large files on the email network.  Large file attachments sent through email can dramatically drive up email storage costs and reduce the performance of messaging servers. Files can easily take up more than 80% of email storage.  As a first line of defense many organizations have implemented file attachment size limits, limiting files to less than 10MB, and implemented quotas on the size of mailboxes. Unfortunately placing mailbox quotas and files size attachment limits results in normally rule-abiding employees bypassing corporate messaging security defenses to send files outside enterprise infrastructure.

  • Unclog email networks by offloading email attachments.
  • Reduce email storage and associated costs.
  • Eliminate business use of unsecure, non-compliant IT workarounds.

Organizations using Accellion are able to offload file attachments from email servers preserving network performance and equally importantly providing end users with a secure, easy to use solution for exchanging large files.

Accellion—no attachment limits

Accellion secure file transfer allows internal and external users to send and receive files and folders using a familiar email interface but without clogging email servers and slowing down the messaging infrastructure. Using Accellion, business users still send an email, but instead of the file being attached and sent through the email system, the file is uploaded to an Accellion appliance. Recipients download the file by clicking on a secure link sent along with the email message.