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What is Filemailing?
Filemailing is the activity of sending files via email using a special program that don't archive sent files and that don't require the sender to write manually text. Filemailng lets users to save both time and disk space.

The advantages of filemailing are:

Time saving
Disk space saving

Time saving
Every day millions of people around the world send and receive several millions of emails (especially to co-workers) whose sole purpose is to transfer files from one computer to another, unfortunately this involves a considerable amount of time because there are a number of conventions that are used when writing an email.

A typical email for sending a file usually require a lot of time-consuming tasks:

To write a subject containing the description of the email
To write a salutation part
To write a paragraph that states the purpose of the email (which is to send a file).
To invent and write a paragraph with some courtesy conversation
To write a paragraph to state what action sender expect the recipient to take when received the file- to give feedback to received the file
To write greetings at the end of the message

Every one of this steps require a lot of time and it should be not necessary because the aim of the email was just to move a file from a computer to another. What's more the recipient of the file has to spend other time to send another message by email with some new phrases and circumstance greetings.

Filemailing avoids this problem because it does not need to manually enter any text.


Time needed to send files when using a traditional email client	Time needed to send files when using a filemailing program

Disk space saving
The traditional email programs usually store into the sender computer all the attachments sent, even those very large, making in this way its proprietary database more difficult to manage for backup and unnecessary wasting disk space with duplicates of files that we already have.

For example two colleagues who send a file of 10MB from one desk to another create 2 copies of unnecessary files stored in their respective email programs dealing with 20MB of disk space. If a similar exchange happens 15 times a day, at the end of the working day the two users have occupied 300MB of disk space, and other 300MB to backup data, for a total of 600MB of unnecessary copies of files that their already possess.

Filemailing programs avoid this waste of space on disk because they don't store any copy of the sent files.


Disk space needed to send files when using a traditional email client	Disk space needed to send files when using a filemailing program

How to do filemailing?
The filemailing is done by using a special email program designed to just send files, for example Filemailer for Mac OS X.

How can I use a filemailing program?
Typically drag a file over the name of the person who should receive it and the program deals with the compression of the file, enters the name of compressed file in the subject, inserts a text information in the body of the message and sends the file. The user has just to click on the Send button. The recipient can receive normally the file with her/his email preferred program.

Do I need a specific program to receive an filemail message?
Of course not, to receive a filemail you need to have a special program as the filemailing programs uses all the standards that are used for regular email. So filemail are received by any person who has an email address.

How to identify a filemail message?
Usually in a filemail message, the Subject field starts with the word "Filemail" within square brackets, example: [Filemail] MyDog.jpg. The same goes for the body field that begins in the same way.

What is the typical content of the body of a filemail message?
Despite the body field can be ignored by the recipient of the message, it usually contains some information about filemailing, the list of file attachments and a possible standard text for requesting feedback.

Who needs filemailing?
Filemailing is given to all those who use email to send files, particularly for those who do so for work. It's really indispensable where file-sharing occurs between colleagues. Also, filemailing is particularly recommended to those who need to send files to someone but do not have time to entertain a conversation circumstance via email.

Did you know?

Did you know that when you send a file via email to someone with a traditional email program your hard disk will contain a new copy of that file occupying space on the disk? By sending the same file of 10MB to four people, you will have 40MB of disk space unnecessarily wasted for a file that you already have.
Did you know that the phrases people has to enter in emails causes to spend even 70% more time to those who have to simply move a file from a computer to another? A person who sends 30 files per day, may lose even one hour and a half a day just to invent and write phrases to enter in the email body.