maildrop

Hello damdube,

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.

From your post I understand you're wanting to know how to send a large attachment using Mail Drop on your Mac. If you are sending from an iCloud account in Mail, by default your large attachments will be sent via Mail Drop.

Send large attachments using Mail Drop

You can use Mail Drop to send files that exceed the maximum size allowed by the provider of your email account. Mail Drop uploads the large attachments to iCloud, where they’re encrypted and stored for up to 30 days.

If you have an iCloud account and you’re signed in to iCloud when you click Send, Mail automatically sends the attachments using Mail Drop. Mail Drop attachments don’t count against your iCloud storage.

If you don’t have an iCloud account, or if you’re not signed in, Mail asks you whether to use Mail Drop (select “Don’t ask again for this account” to always use Mail Drop).

If a recipient uses Mail in OS X Yosemite, the attachments are automatically downloaded and included in your message just like any other attachment. For other recipients, your message includes links for downloading the attachments and their expiration date.

You can turn Mail Drop on or off for an account. Choose Mail > Preferences, click Accounts, select your account, click Advanced, then select or deselect “Send large attachments with Mail Drop.”

Mail (Yosemite): Add attachments

Take care,

Alex H.

I have an iCloud IMAP account and am trying to send around 17mb(which isn't all that big), but keep getting a postmaster@mac message back saying: Message size exceeds fixed limit.

Am I exceeding the limit of the recipient? If so, shouldn't MailDrop kick in and leave instructions to download a link from my iCloud account? BTW, is there anyway to set up a link from my iCloud account that someone could download files from, kind of like those 'transfer' sites offer?

Thanks,

Dan

I am also getting this. Mail drop works some of the time but is very unreliable. I hope Apple is working on this.