Sending Email with attachment versus link?

[VC-1]

Kindly requiring your thoughts/views when sending emails with attachments versus hyperlinks. I am in the process of switching to Cloud storage,the use of Email is via a Web service, accordingly a email client is not required. With cloud service the need for storage on PC is minimized. My cloud service and Email web service seem to promote sending of links over attachments.
In 2015 wonder which is preferred by business or general use please?

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

Kindly requiring your thoughts/views when sending emails with attachments versus hyperlinks. I am in the process of switching to Cloud storage,the use of Email is via a Web service, accordingly a email client is not required. With cloud service the need for storage on PC is minimized. My cloud service and Email web service seem to promote sending of links over attachments.
In 2015 wonder which is preferred by business or general use please?

Clound is difficult to use on a larger scale. Our internet speeds in this country simply isn't fast enough.

 

[mister]

Kindly requiring your thoughts/views when sending emails with attachments versus hyperlinks. I am in the process of switching to Cloud storage,the use of Email is via a Web service, accordingly a email client is not required. With cloud service the need for storage on PC is minimized. My cloud service and Email web service seem to promote sending of links over attachments.
In 2015 wonder which is preferred by business or general use please?

Links - sending an attachment via email inflates its size

 

[WAslayer]

Links..

Attachments have far more cons verus sending links.. email servers have maximum size limits for emails, which can interfere with you sending attachments like mister noted.. then there are local virus scanners that can corrupt your attahcment, mail server spam scan engines that can reject your email with attachment for whatever reason.. (you get some terrible mail server admins with some terrible spam score rules) as well as the recipient's local virus scanner.. then you also have your mailbox size to worry about.. if you are storing those mails on the server, those attachments are just filling up that mailbox..

One of the very few cons of sending links, the recipient may not be able to reach the cloud storage provider where the link is stored for whatever reason.. but this is about the only con here, other than someone possibly hacking your account and stealing your sensitive documents (very unlikely to ever happen but definitely possible)..

 

[Venomous]

I simply don't download links if I do not know you, or even if I do and am not expexting anything.

And if the links look odd I also do not DL from the link.

So I guess, the question is how important is your email....? .......

 

[VC-1]

Thanks for the valued input so far. In general most users send links from Onedrive or Dropbox with links to Ms Office formats inclusive of Adobe and jpg photos. I will not send .exe files unless both parties are known to one another. Sending from Onedrive is clearly identified by the pdf icon and file name as a matter of interest.
Encapsulating all the forum input.
1- Send links to parties that know the sender.
2- Send links for large files by prior arrangement with the recipient.
3- Send attached files to recipients not known by sender keeping to acceptable file sizes.
Please advise if my summary is within 2015 email protocols.

 

[supersunbird]

So I keep the e-mail in my archive folder and decide I want to get that document again, I go to the e-mail and click on the link, now its tells "me the link is invalid", "item has been deleted" or whatever...

Ain't nobody got time for that!

 

[MickeyD]

Thanks for the valued input so far. In general most users send links from Onedrive or Dropbox with links to Ms Office formats inclusive of Adobe and jpg photos. I will not send .exe files unless both parties are known to one another. Sending from Onedrive is clearly identified by the pdf icon and file name as a matter of interest.
Encapsulating all the forum input.
1- Send links to parties that know the sender.
2- Send links for large files by prior arrangement with the recipient.
3- Send attached files to recipients not known by sender keeping to acceptable file sizes.
Please advise if my summary is within 2015 email protocols.

Agree.

1- <include a message in your email that the link is yours>

 

[VC-1]

Agree.

1- <include a message in your email that the link is yours>

Yes in fact Onedrive adds this to the link by default.
Adding one extra proviso - The link will remain active for 7 days from sending date only.
If the recipient does not access/download the file within 7 days it result in dead/deleted link.