The Dispatch

September 17, 2026 · 4 min read

How to send files that are too large for email

Stop attaching them. The bounce message is the product working as designed.

Cartoon Ortigas, a pink jeepney on the avenue

Stop attaching them. The bounce message is the product working as designed.

Stop using the letter slot

Email will pretend to help and then bounce. A shared drive will succeed and then never leave. A transfer is the third thing: a link with a clock.

A link with a clock beats a folder with no ending.

Do this

Upload to a transfer, paste the link into the email you were going to write anyway. The email can be kind and short. The file can be the size it actually is.

On Pink Jeepney: open the site, drop the files, write one sentence on the ticket if they need it, copy the link. Several files can come back down as one zip. Send the link in whatever thread you already have. The transfer does not need to become the relationship.

What fits

Pink Jeepney, without the adjectives
PlanPer transferThe link lastsPassword
Free2 GB7 daysNo
Personal, $925 GB30 daysYes
Professional, $24100 GB90 daysYes
Business, $59250 GBUp to a yearYes, and your logo

When this is the wrong tool

If the file must be unreadable to the host, use Wormhole or Tresorit Send. Pink Jeepney will expire, and it will burn after download if you ask. It will not hide the bytes from the machine that stored them. Know which problem you have.

Written by

David Krug

Twenty-plus years of building cute little websites, and big ones, with an independent footprint. In the Philippines since 2016. Based in Manila, with two children and one amazing partner.

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