Gmail – How to change maximum size of Google Group file attachments

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I looked for this over the net and on support.google.com but found nothing.

I've got a Google group and if I send a mail with a size more than 8MB I'll receive a failure message due to max size limitation. According to Google help I can change the maximum file size in group settings up to 25MB. But I couldn't find anything to help me with this for my group, also I didn't find anything in my group settings.

How can I change the maximum file size of attachments for the group?

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Maximum size for attachment is 25MB. Exceeding the limit will bounce back with an error to the sender and fails to send to the group.

For attachments exceeding 25MB,

Google Drive is the best as Google Groups and Gmail can be accessed with no additional login info which is obviously very secured.
This can also be done with other file hosting sites like mediafire, Dropbox, sendspace, fileserve, filesanywhere, AmazonCloudDrive, rapidgator, zippyshare etc. But these sites may need to sign up for free to upload the files into your website account.
In any of the sites (Google Drive or other sites), You need to upload the file and set the attachment privacy to everyone.
Finally, share the link of the file by copy & pasting into your google groups.

If the recipients are very few and iff you have the list of emails, then you may also send emails with attachments to each member personally (upto 25MB only).

Google Groups doesn’t support bigger sizes for attachments. To my knowledge, it allows a maximum of 25MB. I think the upload size limit it the same. If you try to upload any attachments exceeding the file size limit, they will not be posted in the group. And the error mail will be bounced back to the sender only.

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There's no easy way to fix this.

Here's what I did:

Go to Settings...Filters.
Click on Create a New Filter.
Select Has Attachment.
Click on Next Step.
Click on Apply the label, and select New Label from the drop-down.
Type in the new label in the dialog box that pops up.
Click Create Filter, and apply it to all conversations in the inbox.

Here's the downside: Any email with images in it will trigger this because by definition they are attachments.

The good news is it will also get messages where the attachment was further down and not in the most recent thread of the conversation.

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Update 2019-07-15:

The gmail-fixed-font extension is now hosted on github: https://github.com/jparise/gmail-fixed-font

The instructions are provided in the repo README, but to summarise (assuming you are using Chrome):

Download the script
Open a new tab and navigate to chrome://extensions/
Enable Developer Mode
Drag and drop the script onto the window and install
(optional) you may want to allow the extension only for the gmail domain by clicking Details > Site Access: On specific sites and enter https://mail.google.com in the dialogue box and save

Ok, you have to try Gmail Fixed Font userscript

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Gmail Fixed Font
// @namespace      http://www.indelible.org/
// @description    Fixed-font message bodies for Gmail
// @author         Jon Parise, James Tunnicliffe
// @version        1.3
// @include        http://mail.google.com/*
// @include        https://mail.google.com/*
// @include        http://*.mail.google.com/*
// @include        https://*.mail.google.com/*
// @grant          GM_addStyle
// ==/UserScript==

// Plain-text Message Body
var css = ".ii, .Ak { font: medium monospace !important; }";
// Compose Interface
css += ".editable { font: medium monospace !important; }";

if (typeof GM_addStyle != "undefined") {
    GM_addStyle(css);
} else if (typeof addStyle != "undefined") {
    addStyle(css);
} else {
    var heads = document.getElementsByTagName("head");
    if (heads.length > 0) {
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        node.type = "text/css";
        node.appendChild(document.createTextNode(css));
        heads[0].appendChild(node);
    }
}

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