What is it with the 2 megabyte send limit that email providers give you today? I mean, you can hardly send anything you find cool or interesting to your mates anymore without your send cap blocking the email transfer. You message then when you come back from your keyboard break and ask if they got the file you sent and they say “Nope, never got it”. Seems like we all have to get our own web site and upload files and send links nowadays. Well, now there is a solution. A new private email file transfer software package that allows you to break the 2MB send cap without going through public P2P venues, insecure FTP, or other means.

File Courier from CanDo Networks Corporation is a private P2P file sharing client that works as simply as sending an email. Activate an account on their network, set up your file with a set of options such as password protection, file description, and maximum number of client requests, and it will open a blank email with a link to mail to whomever you want to share the file with. All you are sending is the link. No files are going out through the SMTP server and therefore, no 2MB limit is enforced. Like P2P, you must be connected in order for your recipients to be able to retrieve the file because they are connecting directly to your PC.

On the client side, the other PC receives the email and clicks the link and downloads the file as if it was an http download. The client-side download circumvents the host’s firewall surprisingly easily, which is either good or bad depending on how you think about it. They do not need to have the software in order to get the file, it is straight through their web browser. Downloads are secured via SSL right in the web browser.

I have future expectations for File Courier. I would like to see a file hosting service since it is going to be subscription based and it sometimes seems rather inconvenient as far as P2P clients go, because it is not real time. The ability to transfer the file to a remote server and forget about it rather than worrying about invaders in your PC all times a link is active would be a huge plus. Overall this download has a lot of potential and is great for those that desperately need a way to transfer large files securely, but unless you fit this niche, File Courier not be for you.