Size of attached files
You should make the clients aware of possible limits to the size of files attached to e-mails. There are two points. Firstly some web-based free e-mail services do not allow particularly large attachments. The second point is that, if the recipient is on a dial-up connection, large attachments may be almost impossible to download. This is a particular problem with photographs which can often be several megabytes in size.
You should explain the idea of possibly resizing photographs and definitely compressing them. A rough guide might be that unless there is a special reason, attached photographs should be no more than say 100K in size.
To resize a photograph, the client needs access to image processing software. On the other hand many e-mail programs offer automatic compression of photographs.
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Using one of the e-mail programs listed above, demonstrate to a client how to send both a word-processed document and a photograph as attached files. If you send e-mails to one of the accounts you created earlier, you'll be able to check that they've been received correctly and demonstrate this to the client. |
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