Tonsho is an email service which specializes in allowing you to easily send large
email attachments &endash; one large file or many. It also comes with a host of additional
inbound email handling benefits, such as large file receiving and spam filtering. These
additional services are optional.
Large file sending
Normally a large email attachment, usually over 5 Mb, will bounce back marked undelivered.
So if you're trying to send a set of photos, a large report with graphics or extensive reference
sections as an attachment they just won't be delivered. Tonsho allows you to send files of up to
5 Gb using our web service or 100 Mb directly from your usual email program (e.g. Microsoft
Outlook, Mac Mail or Thunderbird on Linux).
Click on the play button below to see a demo of how the web-based service works:
The images below how the service works if you use your usual email program.
Step 1: Bob attaches files to email
Step 2: Alice receives email and clicks on link
Step 3: Alice is taken to the download page
Inbound Email Handling
Receiving email is often not as simple as it seems. People try to send you large files that
your email server bounces back, or you miss important emails because your inbound email server
decides it is spam when it isn't. So frustrating!
Tonsho solves both of these problems with its inbound email handling features.
Inbound file stripping and Dropboxes
Keep your existing email address and choose to get Tonsho to handle your incoming email. It
will remove any large attachments from your emails and provide you with a link to download the
attachments. This stops your inbox from getting clogged with large file attachments, or worse,
the email being bounced back because your usual email server can't handle it.
For premium account holders, dropboxes are available for receiving large files. Rather than
regular large file senders having to email you, they can upload and drop the file into your dropbox
instead. This means that they don't have to sign up for an account. You can then choose when to
download the files, so your inbox does not get clogged.
Click on the play button below to see a demo of how the dropbox function works:
Spam
Unwanted spam (junk) mail is the problem that threatens to take over your inbox. Standard
spam solutions seek to resolve this by automatically attempting to recognize spam emails before
they reach your inbox and sending those emails to a junk folder. Tonsho spam filtering enables
you to regain control by letting you state which senders you would like to always receive mail
from (this is know in the industry as white listing). This way their mails should never end up
in your junk mail folder. All you have to do is create and maintain an allowed contacts list.
If you are sent an email from someone new who is not on your allowed contacts list, using
Tonsho you will still not 'lose' this email. Tonsho regularly provides you with a brief summary
list of any emails that have been blocked (i.e. from senders that are not on your allowed contact
list). This allows you to easily identify any emails that you do want to receive and with one click
lets you unblock them (effectively adding them to your allowed contacts list) so that they arrive
in your inbox along with any future emails from those senders.
