What the heck is a god dang cloud?

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We have this shit at work, they make it incredibly hard to get a fucking attachment as a real attachment instead of a link to their cloud
Specially annoying since my organization is "geofence" but we work with people all over the world... So MS insists on switching attachments to links nobody can open outside my country
- Blame your company for not configuring that shit, or choosing to let MS handle it all.
  Personally, no company should be using Office 365 and external mail. Bring that shit back in house.
  No Know (wtf autoincorrect?) why bringing it in house costs more? Because it's worth it, for the control.
  
  I speak from experience that no one other than professionals should be handling their own mail servers in 2024. I worked for a mail host. The amount of spam and attacks that befall a mail provider, even a small one, is bonkers. Plus, mail is just too damn important.
  I wish it wasn’t the case because the idea of everyone privately hosting their own mail servers would be pretty awesome. Sadly the modern internet makes it way too risky.
  
  Preach it
  
  I'm also not sure where they got their idea that cloud is cheaper from. On prem has always been cheaper, I've had to walk through fire and flames to get my company to approve cloud hosting as we simply do not have the capacity to be our own mail host. Goodluck explaining tech debt to upper management though, it's like they're allergic to the idea of understanding it.
  
  God if that isn't the truth. We changed from Thryv to rackspace and we went from zero spam to 30 a day and this is AFTER they block a bunch. Waste of my time every day having to go through them.
  
  Ya JWZ I think complained about this
  Edit wait see this
  
  Do you have a link?
  
  Oh maybe conflated a post from someone else like “self hosting email just sucks, everything goes to spam, give up” with a JWZ repost of something different
  
  Sorry to misremember, edited
  
  Thanks
  
  Tomato potato.... My company uses MS because it's the fucking industry default and it sucks
  I would put more onus on them if we were talking about some niche thing they refused to give up. But MS is what everyone uses and they wouldn't be able to ditch it altogether because MS has a monopoly
- Huh? Outlook gives you two clear options when attaching a document. One is to attach as a copy, and one is to share it.
  
  Yes but If you chose the full attachment, half the time I just get the link
  This is because MS will force it if they think the attachment is an odd extension or too big or whatever
  
  I think this it not necessarily a bad thing. Worked in an office where they produce GB of CAD files. Sending it as attachment would fail for most clients because of their mailbox size, and receiving it also sucks because it would clog the local outlook inbox file, and everything would crawl to a halt when you open Outlook in the morning.
  
  That's probably because your file is over 10MB and would be rejected by most receiving systems
  
  Yes, that's what MS thinks... Yet that's not the case as I can successfully get the files off SharePoint to my PC and then email them
  The issue is MS doing this on its own accord and without proper warning or way to permanently override
  
  You can even convert a shared link to an attachment by right clicking on it before sending (assuming you're using Outlook web instead of the ancient garbage Outlook desktop app.)
  
  Is there any way to get it to default to actual attachment?
  
  Start an email. Click attach. Pick the file.
  Same as it's always worked.
- Are you in France?

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