From now on, anyone who uses Gmail as an email client can send large files to all recipients using the new integration of Google Mail with Google Drive . Until now with Gmail it was possible to send large attachments up to 25 MB while now with Google Drive this limit has even been raised to 10 GB.
In order to send such large files via email using Gmail, you need to activate the Google Drive service (the former Google Docs) on your Google account, which allows you to upload files online, only if the space is completely free, up to 5GB with an account free.
This means that the 10 GB limit is valid only if you pay to increase the share of space available in Google Drive.
The new large attachment sending feature is only available if you have activated the new message writing interface in Gmail .
When composing a new email, to insert a file from GDrive into the message, you must rest the mouse on the + next to the paperclip that is normally used to send an attachment, and click on the Google Drive symbol.
If the file had already been uploaded, just select it from your "cloud" archive, otherwise you can upload it from your computer.
Recipients will receive the files in the form of links which, if clicked, lead to the download page.
The recipient does not need to use Gmail or Google Drive because the download page is visible to those who receive the files, without modification permissions.
Of course, if the sender deletes the sent files from the GDrive, they will no longer be visible to the recipients.
In addition to being able to send large files via Email, there is also another advantage in using Google Drive.
if you send a document as an attachment, it can be shared online and you can work collaboratively in the cloud using Google Docs, slides and spreadsheets web applications or using other Google Drive applications.
From 2013 the received attachments can be previewed and saved in Google Drive.
