There’s a limit to message sizes. Most of the time, the maximum size is 10 MB. Anything over that will overload email servers. It’s a good thing that Apple has provided a great way to send large email attachments.
Mail Drop is easy to send a huge attachment on emails. There’s no need to use Dropbox. Mail Drop is enough to send those huge attachments that can’t go through regular emails.
If you’re wondering how to use Mail Drop on Mac, wonder no more. You will learn more about it here. Before you proceed, it’s good to take note that Mail Drop is not part of your iCloud. Hence, it won’t take up a lot of space on your Mac.
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Part 1. A Close Look at Mail Drop
Let’s take a good look at Mail Drop. Mail Drop allows you to send huge attachments through email. If you have a big video, you wouldn’t have to worry about it.
With Mail Drop, you can send a video that measures up to 5 GB. That’s huge. You wouldn’t have to worry about using any kind of external drive to save huge files.
Another good thing about Mail Drop is that the attachments you send through emails are available for 30 days. There’s no need for the recipient to open the attachment right away. After the 30 days, Mail Drop resets to zero attachments. Then you can use it again.
It doesn’t matter if the recipient of your email is an Apple user or an Android user. What Mail Drop does is that it uploads the attachment to an email. Then it provides a link so that the recipient can access the attachment from either iCloud or Mail Drop. From either one, the recipient can download the file from whatever platform they’re using.
Part 2. How to Use Mail Drop on Mac
How do I access mail drop on Mac? Before you go on to use Mail Drop, you would have to enable it on your Mac. To enable it, follow the steps below.
- Go to Mail.
- Scroll down to Preferences.
- Click on your account on the next window.
- Then go to the Advanced button. Make sure to check the very last option that says “Send large attachments with Mail Drop”. That enables the Mail Drop service.
Here’s how you can finally use the service so that you can send large attachments through your emails.
- Open up your Mail app.
- Start a new email.
- Attach a video by dragging and dropping it on the interface of the email. You can also click on the attachment icon on the top part of the screen.
- Click on the Send button on the top, left part of the screen.
- Wait for a pop-up message to appear. This message will ask you if you want to send the attachment using Mail Drop.
- Click on the Use Mail Drop button on the lower part of the pop-up window.
The good thing about using the Mail Drop service is that the recipient doesn’t need a Mac to receive the attachment. Instead, the recipient is going to see a link where he or she could just click on it. That will open in a web browser. The recipient will see Apple Mail Drop. All the recipient has to do is to click on Open.
Now you have learned how to use mail drop on Mac. Keep in mind that there is a limit to using Mail Drop.
Attachments cannot be bigger than 5 GB. There’s also a limit of sending attachments totaling to 1 terabyte in 30 days. It rests after 30 days. When it does, all the attachments that you have sent are deleted. Probably the best thing about Mail Drop is that it’s free to use.