Daniel Hruska One of the many new features in OS X Yosemite is Mail Drop, which allows you to send files of up to 5GB by email, regardless of your mailbox provider's limits. Yes, you read that right – you don't need to send directly from your iCloud email to use Mail Drop.
Mail Drop works on a fairly simple principle. If the attached file is large, it is separated from the email itself and travels its own way through iCloud. At the recipient's disposal, this file is again unselfishly linked together with the e-mail. If the recipient is not using the native Mail app, a link to the file stored in iCloud will appear instead of the file, and will be available there for 30 days.
The advantage of this solution is obvious – for one-time sending of large files, there is no need to upload links to various data repositories and then send the download link to the person in question. So Mail Drop offers a convenient and simple way to send large videos, photo albums and other bulky files. But what if you need to send such a file from a different account than iCloud?
The Mail application and any other account that supports IMAP will suffice:
- Open Mail settings (Mail > Preferences… or an abbreviation ⌘,).
- Go to the tab Accounts.
- Select the desired account in the account list.
- Go to the tab Advanced.
- Check the option Send large attachments via Mail Drop.
That's it, now you can send large files from a "non-iCloud" account. My experience is that the first three attempts ended in failure, when Gmail on the recipient's side refused to accept the sent file (about 200 MB) or Gmail on my side refused to send it instead. Anyway, I was able to successfully send this email twice after that. What is your experience with Mail Drop?
thanks for the tutorial! :)
it doesn't work on pop3 accounts
Yes, the conditions are mentioned in the article - Mail application and IMAP account.