The embodiment of the invention discloses a method for sending a multimedia message, which comprises the following steps: acquiring indicating information which is sent by a receiving terminal and used for indicating at least one media component of the multimedia message in the current session to be saved; saving the media component indicated by the indicating information to a network storage device according to the indicating information, and acquiring a linkage identifier generated by the network storage device; and replacing the saved media component in the multimedia message with the linkage identifier and sending the replaced multimedia message to the receiving terminal. Moreover, the invention also discloses a system and equipment for sending the multimedia message, which can send part of or total content of the multimedia message to the receiving terminal according to the selection of a user of the receiving part or the terminal capability and satisfy the user request of flexibly processing different type messages.