Re: [Exim] Message Size Limit

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Autor: Sheldon Hearn
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A: Graham Dodd
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Message Size Limit
On (2003/08/14 12:53), Graham Dodd wrote:

> Yes I'm new to the list, but I have checked the archives before asking ;-)
>
> I have a message_size_limit of 10M
>
> I tried sending a zipped file of 8.433 Mb (8.650.752 Bytes according to
> Windows), the one file that was in the archive was 28Mb


When you send files by email, they're encoded (using BASE64 UUENCODE
algorithms, usually) for safe transit over 7-bit channels.

This encoding is inefficient, typically anything from 20% to 40%.

Just another good reason not to send large files via email.

Ciao,
Sheldon.