Filemail

filemail.com · Storage · 3 records · JSON

Filemail Storagefails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap
Filemail Basic Storagefails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
filemail 'store files forever' Storagefails: quotaemail?card?R

Filemail Storage

fails: quotainstitutionno cardRper-object-cap

www.filemail.com · anon-dump · storage/filemail · JSON · compare

Free tier	5 GB per transfer with no registration; 2 transfers per 24 hours; 7-day retention. Paid: Pro 250 GB/transfer, Business/Enterprise 'unlimited file size' — and only Business/Enterprise can pick 'Forever' retention. unit GB; metered on unstated
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	per-object-cap: 5 GB (5000000000 bytes)
Retention	5 GB per transfer with no registration; 2 transfers per 24 hours; 7-day retention (1 days)
Egress	not metered on free; desktop apps recommended for speed.
Identity	institution derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: ; 'Forever' requires Business or Enterprise. request-rate: API is 20 requests per 10 seconds plus a per-plan daily leaky-bucket quota (429 on exceed). pull-count: not capped on free.
Limits	per-ip-shaping transfer, Business/Enterprise 'unlimited file size' — and only Business/Enterprise can pick 'Forever source retention-clamped Retention: 7 days source per-object-cap per-object-cap: 5 GB source per-object-cap: 5 GB free / 250 GB Pro / unlimited Business. Retention: 7 days free; 'Forever' requires Business or Enterprise. request-rate: API is 20 requests per 10 seconds plus a per-plan daily leaky-bucket quota (429 on exceed). pull-count: not capped on free.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	rest rest
Tooling	Mature REST API 2.0 at api-public.filemail.com with x-api-key + x-api-version headers; real docs at docs.filemail.com. But 'only Personal, Pro, Business and Enterprise accounts have access to our API' — the free/no-account tier has NO API.
Composes with	5 GB x 2 transfers/day x unlimited identities — but no programmatic path on the free tier, so every unit needs a human and an account. The one genuinely interesting hook is 'Store Files Forever', which is Business/Enterprise only and consumes the account's paid storage.
Reliability	Two independent caps stack on the free tier — 5 GB AND 2 transfers/24h — and the service is geo-restricted ('the free service is not available in certain regions'). The free tier is not a storage candidate at all.
Notes	5 GB per transfer with no registration; 2 transfers per 24 hours; 7-day retention. Paid: Pro 250 GB/transfer, Business/Enterprise 'unlimited file size' — and only Business/Enterprise can pick 'Forever' retention.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[2].value` limit:per-object-cap 5.0 GB

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	support.filemail.com/en/articles/4103694-free-file-sharing-s	'5 GB ... 2 transfers within a 24-hour period ... stored for a maximum 7 days'
2026-10-21	docs.filemail.com/filemail-api-2.0/getting-started	'only Personal, Pro, Business and Enterprise accounts have access to our API'; '20 requests every 10 seconds'
2026-10-21	support.filemail.com/en/articles/1668572-store-files-forever	'When you have a Filemail Business or Enterprise account you can keep your files available forever'

More fields (1)

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "retention",
  "why": "5 GB per transfer with no registration; 2 transfers per 24 hours; 7-day retention. Paid: Pro 250 GB/transfer, Business/Enterprise 'unlimited file size' — and only Business/Enterprise can pick 'Forever' retention.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (4)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted

Filemail Basic Storage

fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap

www.filemail.com/plans/basic · anonymous-dump · storage/filemail-basic · JSON · compare

Free tier	5 GB of storage space and 5 GB max per transfer, on a free 1-user account. unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	per-object-cap 5 GB (5000000000 bytes)
Retention	per-object-cap 5 GB; retention 7 days file availability; pull-count 10 downloads per transfer; 3 recipients per transfer; 5 GB total storage per account. (7 days)
Egress	Free within the plan; download count is the real meter (10 downloads per transfer).
Identity	anonymous derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: 3 recipients per transfer; 5 GB total storage per account. anonymous-dump
Limits	retention-clamped retention 7 days source per-object-cap per-object-cap 5 GB source per-object-cap 5 GB; retention 7 days file availability; pull-count 10 downloads per transfer; 3 recipients per transfer; 5 GB total storage per account.
Binding	per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota
Interface	s3, webdav, sftp, rclone web + desktop app; no S3/WebDAV/SFTP on the free tier
Tooling	Filemail desktop app; no rclone backend
Composes with	5 GB storage x unlimited free 1-user accounts = trivially repeatable but each account is a 5 GB silo with 7-day file availability, so aggregate retention is worthless for archive. Would need 100+ accounts to reach 500 GB of expiring data.
Reliability	Files disappear after 7 days regardless of account; download cap of 10 makes it unusable for serving.
Notes	5 GB of storage space and 5 GB max per transfer, on a free 1-user account.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[1].value` limit:per-object-cap 5.0 GB

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	www.filemail.com/plans/basic	'We provide 5 GB of storage space and the ability to send and receive any file type, up to 5 GB in size', '7-Day File Availability', '10 Downloads Per Transfer', '3 Recipients Per Transfer'

More fields (1)

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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "5 GB of storage space and 5 GB max per transfer, on a free 1-user account.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (4)

$.extras.dead_end.retry_when process
$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted

filemail 'store files forever' Storage

fails: quotaemail?card?R

support.filemail.com/en/articles/1668572-store-files-forever · rejected-provider · storage/filemail-store-files-forever · JSON · compare

Free tier	The only genuine forever-retention product in this niche, but it is Business/Enterprise only and consumes paid account storage. Not reachable from the free tier. unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not recorded
Retention	not recorded
Egress	not recorded
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not recorded
Composes with	not recorded
Reliability	The only genuine forever-retention product in this niche, but it is Business/Enterprise only and consumes paid account storage. Not reachable from the free tier.
Notes	The only genuine forever-retention product in this niche, but it is Business/Enterprise only and consumes paid account storage. Not reachable from the free tier.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	support.filemail.com/en/articles/1668572-store-files-forever	The only genuine forever-retention product in this niche, but it is Business/Enterprise only and consumes paid account storage. Not reachable from the free tier.

More fields (1)

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 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "retention",
  "why": "The only genuine forever-retention product in this niche, but it is Business/Enterprise only and consumes paid account storage. Not reachable from the free tier.",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

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$.confidence_note withheld
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$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-recorded
$.per_object_cap.stated not-recorded
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-recorded
$.tooling not-recorded