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Does the recipient of an email have to registered for Filelink to make it work?

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Firefox advises me to send an Excel file via Filelink. If I do that, will the recipient be able to oen the Excel file regardless of his/her email programme

Firefox advises me to send an Excel file via Filelink. If I do that, will the recipient be able to oen the Excel file regardless of his/her email programme

Réiteach roghnaithe

File link doesn't attach the file to the messages. It uploads the file to a server and places a link to that file into the message body.

The recipient just clicks the link and gets the file from the server.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/filelink-large-attachments

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Réiteach Roghnaithe

File link doesn't attach the file to the messages. It uploads the file to a server and places a link to that file into the message body.

The recipient just clicks the link and gets the file from the server.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/filelink-large-attachments

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BrianHills said

Firefox advises me to send an Excel file via Filelink. If I do that, will the recipient be able to oen the Excel file regardless of his/her email programme

Many thanks from a geriatric, technolgically-challenged pc and email user