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I suggest you split the file using a file splitter utility, send her the utility as well, and send the file split up so that her e-mail client can receive it in pieces if necessary. There are many free utilities that will do this at www.download.com if you input a search for "file splitter". She may need to download the e-mail right after you send the first part, second, etc. depending on how much e-mail her ISP will hold for her at once.

Another alternative is to use a music utility to further reduce the bits/second that the music is recorded in... that will affect the quality of the sound however.

And yet another alternative may be to burn it on a cd and overnight it to her, or play it over the telephone to her, or send her thelink to download and listen to it herself.

The problem is not the email client, nor is it necessarily the size of the mailbox allowed by the ISP (although this can be an issue).

The problem most likely is the size of the email attachment allowed by the ISP. Unless you can use a file splitting utility such as Anna suggests (your sister would need the same utility to reassemble the file), you are out of luck.

The bounce message you receive should tell you the maximum allowable size for email (it will normally read something along the lines of 'The file size of XXX exceeds the maximum allowable size of ZZZ' or something similar).

If you are using Outlook Express you may go to tools then to Internet Accounts, open up your account. Then the Advance tab, about half way down you will see the word-Sending a check box and Break apart messages larger than ______ KB. Put a check in the box and set the KB for about 250. This will send your email in smaller segments to your sister and when she gets it it will combine in to one again. Be sure and tell your sister not open any of the emails until it is all there and combine back into one.

Hi, I read all the answers and all the suggestions are good, but we are not sure what is the maximum storage capacity is allowed by your sister's ISP. Instead of splitting and sending the song through email, you can do a trick by opening a yahoo mail id and go to and login your yahoo user id, and upload your song to yahoo breifcase. After uploading your song, you can mail your sister and inform about your yahoo id and password, and also the procedure for downloadingfrom yahoo briefcase. You can upload upto 30MB for free in Yahoo. Try this out if it looks better.

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