@Keith_Beddoewrote:
@Stephen5000
Email was designed to be a 7 bit text based platform, so that 8 bit images have to be converted to 7 bit. This results in a much larger overhead especially with compressed image formats, hence the restriction on image size. This is unlikely to change.
If you want to send images, then upload them to a cloud based service like OneDrive or Google Drive, then share it and add the shared link to to your email. You can then send both images and video if required.
I have a 'talk21' address which I signed up to in 1993 via an original 'Sky' box. Talk21 was so called because it was the planned communication system of the 21st century. In the following 29 years, it was passed around numerous providers before ending up currently with BT. I can confirm that in the hands of previous suppliers, there was no such limit imposed on an email body. It's only since BT had it, that every 2 to 3 weeks on a long email exchange, I get that error saying I have exceeded the limit. It's a very easy workaround in that you simply start off a brand new email exchange even though you then lose all the history.
There is no workaround I have found though to insert simple Jpeg/GIF into the body that exceeds 300Kb.
I don't do 'clouds', or GDrive, I like to keep my images on my computer, not some other blokes, and like the simplicity of when I send an email, the recipient can open it seeing what I sent instantly, without messing around trying to get it.
Yes, I'm well aware I'm a dinosaur, an analogue man in a digital world, but the only saving grace is that I'll probably not have much longer, and you young'uns can live the virtual lives you have all now been brought up to desire 😂
