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New Software `Fixes` Email Limitation

An end to email troubles? Perhaps. Surely, you are familiar with the experience of sending someone an email that has a big file attached to it, only to discover that your recipient`s email service does not support files of that size. New software from Pando Networks might be the saver of us all. Once used, the software automatically coverts the attached file into a smaller one that allows your recipient to download the original file from Pando`s servers making sure that email gets where it needs to be.

The company offers plug-ins that will work with most web-based mail services and actually solves the issue of big file attachments. Normally, most of the popular email clients limit their accounts to about 10MB, which is defiantly not enough for today`s uses. If you are sending small pictures or text, then 10MB is more than enough, but when sending large amounts of high quality pictures, you email service might block your emails from arriving.

Microsoft`s Windows and Internet Explorer are both needed in order to use the plug-ins, but Mac users are more than capable of using the standalone version of the software and to send and receive large attachments. Pando will work with files up to 1GB, which is 10 times more than what is offered by the average email client. The files are kept on the company`s servers for 14 days (in the free version), and your recipient can download them from the servers during that time.