Gmail
upgraded the maximum attachment size
from 10 MB to 20 MB. Gmail was quite forgiving and you could send more than
10 MB in some cases, but now it's possible to send at least 20 MB in one
message. Of course, few mail providers will accept a such a big message, so it's
safe to send messages bigger than 10 MB to other Gmail accounts, to Yahoo Mail
Plus or to other premium accounts. It would be nice if Gmail showed a progress
bar for the upload and if uploading files to Gmail was faster and more reliable.
But maybe we're asking too much :-)
However, I would imagine that this will significantly cut down on overhead
(and improve efficiency of) GMail storage-related applications such as
GMailFS or
GMail Drive. GMailFS uses a virtual filesystem, so doesn't have file size
limits, but GMail Drive is strictly one-file-one-attachment (a significantly
less efficient method), so at the very least it doubles the max file size you
can store with GMail Drive. None of the current GMail filesystem applications
seem to be ideal implementations though (GMailFS's creator admits that using
subjects for metadata was a bad idea, and GMailDrive's approach is severely
limiting), so the possibility of significant improvement in such third-party
utilities is quite exciting!