No, you can’t send a file as an attachment, in the traditional sense, in Mailchimp. You can however send a link to recipients where they may download the file at their convenience.
We can dig a little deeper! mailchimp doesn’t allow sending files as attachments with email messages. Services such as Gmail are becoming more strict than ever about not showing messages that are larger than 102kb meaning that email messages with attachments have a smaller chance of being opened and read.
A common question we ran across in our research was “How are attachments handled with a Mailchimp email campaign?”.
Attachments are handled slightly differently with a Mailchimp email campaign. Most people want to send a file as an attachment in an email message. This is very inefficient as it forces the recipient to download the attached file even if they don’t want to download the file.
What type of files can I upload to Mailchimp?
You can upload many types of files to your Mailchimp account, and share them with your contacts. Each image file should be approximately 1MB or less, and other file types should be 10MB or less. Here are the file types we allow in Mailchimp.
This is what we discovered. mailchimp offers two ways to provide a file to your contacts when they subscribe to your email campaigns. Since we don’t allow attachments, we give you the option to upload your report, MP3, video, or other file type directly to our servers.
Mailchimp offers free file hosting so you can add a file to an email campaign and share it with your contacts. You can upload and share many types of files including images, documents, spreadsheets, audio, or video.
What do I need to send with my Mailchimp email campaign?
You need to send a PDF file, a form or other type of file as an attachment with your Mailchimp email campaign. How do you send an attachment? Attachments are handled slightly differently with a Mailchimp email campaign.
Besides hosting your files with Mailchimp you can always save your file or files to Dropbox, Google Drive or similar and then add a link to the file in your Mailchimp campaign. Here is a list of file types that you may store in the Mailchimp file manager.
Is Mailchimp available in other languages?
This page is now available in other languages. Mailchimp offers free file hosting so you can add a file to an email campaign and share it with your contacts. You can upload and share many types of files including images, documents, spreadsheets, audio, or video.