Author: Sheldon Hearn Date: To: Graham Dodd CC: exim-users Subject: 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.
