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Email and attachments

I guess nobody seems to care but I've searched almost the whole day for a solution but coulnd't find any or am I the only one who sends email with attachments other than pictures, video or audio etc ?
The big problem is the predefined set of file types you can attach to an email. This in both the HTC Email application and the Gmail application.
When you want to add an attachment to an email, you can only choose pictures, video's, audio, app share, location and document. What if I want to attach a .zip file or multiple zip files at once. No way you can do that. The only solution I found was a program called File Sender but this one only works for the Gmail application, whereas I'm an Exchange Active Sync user.
When started, the File Sender application opens a tiny file explorer in which you can choose the file you want to attach to an email. I want the same functionality in the stock HTC Email application. And no I don't want to buy 3rd party Exchange email clients. Any one with a solution or any one who can develop a mod/program/hack or whatever to bring this functionality to Android ? It would be nice to select multiple files at once no matter what kind of file type.
Thanks....

There are many apps that can solve your problem. For example install Blackmoon File Browser and you can attach any file in Gmail.

You can always change the extension of a .zip file to .jpg or similar and tell your recipient to change it back, saves you doing anything
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pascanu said:
There are many apps that can solve your problem. For example install Blackmoon File Browser and you can attach any file in Gmail.
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Thanks, but for Gmail there are solutions but I'm an Exchange user so I use the stock HTC Email application and NOT the Gmail app. For HTC email app there are only paid apps which can handle attachments as it should be.

Try a file manager, I've got Astro and I can send with that through Gmail or the Mail app but I'm not sure about your exchange account.
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Jabbafat23 said:
Try a file manager, I've got Astro and I can send with that through Gmail or the Mail app but I'm not sure about your exchange account.
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+1 for astro, it'll allow you to send any file as an attachment in my experience. not used it with exchange though as i dont use exchange

dropbox solution

just found the new dropbox client for wp7
BoxFiles & KickBox (not Free )
check the review here
http://wmpoweruser.com/a-look-at-the-newest-windows-phone-7-dropbox-applications/
cause the wp7 not allow u to access your file (like word or powerpoint document) upload to dropbox
i found another solution
it call sentodropbox
after setup, u can get a email address
when u send a attachment to this email, it auto send the file to your dropbox
i'm not a developer, just want to share with u, enjoy

That's a great find! I haven't been able to figure out how to use the SkyDrive Cloud yet on WP7.

email attachment is too large to download

Using the native email client on my AT&T HTC One X, it will not allow attachments over 2mb to be downloaded. Instead of the attachment, it downloads a 160 byte txt file saying the email attachment is too large to download. How do I disable this to allow any size attachment to be downloaded? (Trying to get a 4MB PDF)

Set up a drop box account and use that as a go between? Just a short term solution I suppose.
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I wanted to add that this is for an active sync account. It days max attachment size is 2097152. I'd rather not switch to a third party email client but I may have to.

Email alerts on my phone not automatically show images

I really need to find an answer or a solution to this.
So I have a security camera setup at my store and house... The DVR Recorder is set up to email alerts to me directly when it detects motion... if the DVR senses motion, I get 3 snap shots sent to me thru email directly to my phone (or whatever email address). The images are small CIF (240x320) resolution shots spaced 2 seconds apart - so 3 pics total.
OK: So when I had an iPhone, and I received an alert email - I would SEE the 3 attached photo's automatically when clicking the email message.
Now I'm using GS3 phone, and I get the email but the pictures are 3 separate attachments and I have to manually click on them to download and display - each one individually. VERY ANNOYING.
I've tried the default Gmail app, and Enhanced Email... Same result with both email apps. I'd like to get the email to automatically show the images - which are really small, and I don't understand why I need to manually download them to see them............
Anyone have any suggestions????????

Araltd said:
I really need to find an answer or a solution to this.
So I have a security camera setup at my store and house... The DVR Recorder is set up to email alerts to me directly when it detects motion... if the DVR senses motion, I get 3 snap shots sent to me thru email directly to my phone (or whatever email address). The images are small CIF (240x320) resolution shots spaced 2 seconds apart - so 3 pics total.
OK: So when I had an iPhone, and I received an alert email - I would SEE the 3 attached photo's automatically when clicking the email message.
Now I'm using GS3 phone, and I get the email but the pictures are 3 separate attachments and I have to manually click on them to download and display - each one individually. VERY ANNOYING.
I've tried the default Gmail app, and Enhanced Email... Same result with both email apps. I'd like to get the email to automatically show the images - which are really small, and I don't understand why I need to manually download them to see them............
Anyone have any suggestions????????
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Have you tried the show images option in settings?
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jjlean said:
Have you tried the show images option in settings?
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Yeah of course. I think the issue is these are sent as ATTACHMENTS, not as embedded HTML images. What I need is an email app that will auto-download attachments, either all or maybe if I can say download attachments under a certain file size.

Have you tried some of the apps available at the store? Like K-9 or MailDroid. I haven't used em so cant say which might do what you need.
Something else you could try is grabbing the email app from another Samsung phone like the Note, or see if the plain Android stock email app could work.
Sorry I dont have a direct answer for you, but though id at least throw out some ideas.
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Same problem I have even htc has done something closed to the iPhone email client, probably the most wanted feature I want on android I would pay 20$ for any app that Could do the same as iPhone email client and I don't think touchdown does it not sure
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Touchdown will have them as attachments also unless its embedded in the html.
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[Q] How to send email with attachment larger than 5 mb?

I'm using the stock android email app for my outlook account. I need to send some pictures to a frined of mine. I can only send 2 pictures at a time because theres an attachment limit of 5 mb. IIRC, Outlook has a limit of either 10 or 25mb per mail.
How can i fix this? I dont want to use another email app because i like the layout of this one
Thanks in advance!

Attachment Limits
Usually both parties have to have an email account that allows for the email attachment limit. In other words, if you have gmail (25MB limit) and your friend has yahoo (20MB) limit, I believe) then you can't send him a 23MB email even though gmail would allow you. So check both your limit and your friends limit. Also, there are a lot of other factors that play into email size besides just the attachment. For example, yahoo's email limit is 20MB but I've heard people say they can't send more than around 16MB because of other things that are included in the email.
My advice: Upload all your pictures to dropbox/gmail/skydrive/"insert favorite cloud storage". Then just send him a link to that folder in an email. He can download as many as he wants. This would let you keep the email app that you already like.

listen to drewmey's advice with cloud services or switch, like i did, to solmail/cloudmagic email apps. i had the same problem with gmail app.