Subject: question on attachment sizes

From: Greg Dec <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 09:11:40 -0500

I saw this in PINE but this may not be an issue with PINE per se.  But 
here it is:

I sent a message to a PINE user with 5 jpeg attachments that were 
roughly 600k in size each.  When the message arrived the totall size of 
the mesage was larger than it should have been.   5x600k= 3 meg  but the 
size of the message was over 4 meg.   I looked at what the recipient 
received and the message stated the attachments were like 800k in size.  
  Is there some "overhead" added to attachement when they are sent? or 
does it have to do with sending multiple attachments?  We use PINE 4.44 
with Sendmail 8.11.

Thanks!  

T

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From: "Brian Bruns" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 09:15:11 -0500

> does it have to do with sending multiple attachments?  We use PINE 4.44

Thanks normal.  The encoding process for attachments using MIME adds some
overhead to ensure that the message can pass through mail servers that can't
handle pure binary data.
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