Why haven’t email attachment file size limits increased over the years?
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The protocols we use for e-mails really haven’t changed since the early days of the internet, with a few add-ons like encryption. In order to make sending large attachments more feasible, you would need to fundamentally change how the e-mail system works to make it more efficient for transferring large files, and every e-mail provider and client would have to adopt this new protocol.
E-mail was never meant for file transfer, we already have other protocols which are much better for doing that. In the old days, someone who wanted to distribute a file to a bunch of people by e-mail may have sent a link to an FTP site. Today, you might send a link to a dropbox location, or a Microsoft Teams session.
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