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Many people may think of the Mail Drop feature as iCloud-only, but users can enable the convenient Mail Drop feature for other non-iCloud email accounts that are setup in Mail for Mac OS. This allows you to use the excellent Mail Drop feature for sending and receiving large files with just about any email account that you add to Mail app on the. For the unfamiliar; Mail Drop is a feature in Mail for, iPhone, and iPad, that allows you to send and receive large files that would typically not be allowed over email due to strict file size limits of most email servers. Instead, when using Mail Drop on, the large file is uploaded temporarily to iCloud, and the recipient of the email gets a temporary download link to access that large file. It works quite well, and you can initiate Mail Drop sending from a or an iOS device, and virtually any recipient can download the file via the link whether they have an Apple device or not. Mail Drop allows you to send files up to 5GB in size by using the feature, but remember it requires uploading the entire Mail Drop file to iCloud, which then presents itself as a temporarily available download link to the recipient so that they can download and access the Mail Drop file.
Note this is not the only way you can use Mail Drop from the, you can also just create an iCloud.com email address and set that up in Mail for, which by default uses Mail Drop for large file transfers. If for whatever reason Mail Drop is not enabled on that too, then you can follow the same instructions below to enable Mail Drop on any email account setup in Mail for. How to Enable Mail Drop on Other non-iCloud Email Accounts for Mac Have an email account that you’d like to use Mail Drop with?
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Sep 4, 2017 - If you have an iCloud account, you can use Apple Mail Drop to send. Since Mail Drop uses iCloud for storage, it is automatically enabled for Apple Mail apps. Like Gmail, Outlook and Thunderbird are all IMAP compatible. Click the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) drop down menu, and then click Edit Server List. Click the Advanced tab, verify the settings given below, and then click OK.