# Hotmail and Yahoo
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-yahoo/77422
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 21, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-yahoo/77422 "2001-08-21T21:11:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@BingoBurringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BingoBurringo)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2001, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-yahoo/77422/1 "2001-08-21T21:11:41Z")
I need to mail myself a file that’s 25.2M
Will either Hotmail or Yahoo accomodate a file that size?
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### Author:  [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2001, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-yahoo/77422/2 "2001-08-21T21:13:49Z")
Hotmail limit is 2MB of storage. Yahoo limit is 6MB.
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### Author:  [@orr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orr)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2001, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-yahoo/77422/3 "2001-08-21T21:23:06Z")
Your best bet w/a file that size is to upload it somewhere and then download it on your other computer. You could use a free hosting service such as ProHosting. They have a 50mb limit on webspace, and they might have a limit on file size.
Or you could break up the file into a rar archive and mail each chunk seperately. Then you could unrar them when after you recieve them.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hotmail-and-yahoo/77422/4 "2001-08-21T21:30:34Z")
Or you could post it in the newsgroup, alt.binaries.test then download it…when you get home. Of course, everyone else can too.