Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files
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Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files
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Re: Gmail and Drive - a new way to send files
#2Seems very useful. I bet I'll be using that a lot.
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#3Sorry for being pessimistic, but any speculation on the vulnerabilities this connection opens?
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#4Sorry for being pessimistic, but any speculation on the vulnerabilities this connection opens?
No more than the years-old sharing features in Google Docs/Drive, I'd imagine.
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#5This is long overdue. I've been inserting links to Google Docs (the old name for Drive files) into emails forever, but plenty of people I know don't realize how easily they can do that and give up if a large file cannot be attached to an email. I'm also surprised by how many Gmail-using friends of mine don't even know there's some hefty free file storage a click away even though the link to it has been at the top of their Gmail for years.
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#6I wonder if this will cause storage optimisations on their data centers.
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#7> Have you ever tried to attach a file to an email only to find out it's too large to send?
Yeah! Some jerk who runs my MTA set the size of acceptable attachments really low! I wonder who did that...
$ host -t mx mydomain.com
mydomain.com mail is handled by 0 aspmx.l.google.com.
Oh... I see.
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#8> Have you ever tried to attach a file to an email only to find out it's too large to send? Yeah! Some jerk who runs my MTA set the size of acceptable attachments really low! I wonder who did that... $ host -t mx mydomain.com mydomain.com mail is handled by 0 aspmx.l.google.com. Oh... I see.
Attachment size limits aren't there just to fuck with you. Sending large files around between web clients is okay, but if you send a large file to an outlook user they're going to have to sit there waiting for it to download before the rest of their email comes in. And then it's going to make their PST file exceed the maximum PST file size, which in a poorly managed system (i.e. most personal computers) is going to cause data loss.
Also, my parents used to use an ISP-provided email address, and it would silently drop any messages that included a file that exceeded their maximum attachment size. So any time i tried to send them photos, they'd never get the email. Limiting attachments to a fairly small size is just being a good citizen of the email network.
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#9This is lovely. Very welcome.
Sending and sharing files are two of those things that are just now sluggishly rolling over to discover that it's a new millennium.
Dropbox and Drive are making great strides lately and I'm really thankful for it. Using Dropbox to have the same "folder" across three computers is the first time synced sharing ever felt intuitive enough for my (71 year old) father to regularly use, and now he can use this to reliably send larger files to people without any worry of fouling up permissions (that would otherwise be difficult for him to understand).
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#10plug: my friend built a chrome extension that does a superset of that - it is called Cloudy and integrates with filepicker.io which lets you choose files from multiple cloud storages:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloudy/fcfnjfpcmno...
disclaimer: I work for a Google competitor