How to receive a large file with Podmailing
This page explains step by step how to receive a podmail: a potentially huge file delivered by the Podmailing service. It is very easy, but should you encounter any problem, you will find explanations and a walk through below.
Has someone sent you a podmail? Is it your first time? Congratulations! Here are the steps:
Receiving the notification email
You should have received an e-mail in your inbox.
If this e-mail does not appear in you inbox: it is likely that it has been thrown away by your anti-spam filter. In that case, search for it in your spam box and mark it as non-spam. To prevent this problem from happening again, add the address "" to your address book.
If the e-mail cannot be found even in your spam box, please check with the sender that he is using the proper email address to reach you.
Opening the email informing you that a large file is awaiting you
It contains information about the file to be downloaded: its name, its size, the personal message from the sender and even a preview image:
If the image does not appear: reactivate image display for all messages from "".
Now, you must have noticed that the name of the file is underlined and blue... well yes, it is a link that you must click to reach the podmail download Web page.
Podmailing download page to retrieve the large file
The podmail download page mentions key information on the file to be retrieved, and proposes 2 methods to receive it:
- Download with Podmailing: this is the recommended method, which enables you to keep all your received podmails and to monitor downloads in the best conditions.
- Download with BitTorrent: this method is proposed to satisfy our most geeky users, who will understand what it is about.
The following explanations are related to the recommended method (1): Download with Podmailing. As indicated, you need the Podmailing software to go on. Click here to get instructions if you have not installed it yet.
If Podmailing is installed, then let's get back to the Web download page:
All you need to do now is click the "Download with Podmailing" button. Your browser then downloads a small file named after the file that you want to retrieve, with a ".zed" extension. Example: "Wedding video.zed".
Opening the podmail and tracking the download of large files
Now open this ".zed" file with the Podmailing software. If your computer does not do it automatically, instruct it to always open ".zed" files with the Podmailing software.
Then, Podmailing takes care of the download of the file. You can monitor the progress of the download anytime by clicking on the corresponding row.
When the bar reaches 100%, the file is available.
NB: the amount of sent data (expressed in MB) can be less or more than the size of the transferred file itself. That happens when you contribute to the transfer of a file to several recipients, or when several people contribute to upload a file.
Podmail: received! Your large file or folder has arrived!
Once the podmail has been 100% downloaded, you can find it in the podmail reception folder. Its default location is...
On Windows:
- "My documents/Podmailing"
On MacOS X:
- "home/Podmailing" (home being your user folder)
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Then you can click the buttons on the right side of the info panel of the podmail details:
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You can also click the button named "My received files" to simply open the podmail reception folder. |
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Resuming after a large file or folder transfer interruption
One more detail: if your file is really large, say several hundreds of Mega-bytes, then it may take some time to receive it entirely - sometimes even several hours.
If you wish, you can shut down your computer or your Internet connection before the transfer is complete, no problem. As soon as the Internet connection is up again, the transfer picks up where it left off!
Transfer resuming generally starts automatically after a few seconds. If it does not, check your Internet connection. And in some cases, you can stimulate the transfer by clicking the button Pause transfer" and then "Resume transfer".