Re: [exim] message_size_limit error

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Author: Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] message_size_limit error
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 08:01 -0500, Marc Sherman wrote:
> Attachments are generally encoded as base64 by MUAs, which tends to
> expand their size by 140%.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#MIME


I updated Wikipedia so it says 137%. the expansion is actually 4/3 *
78/76 == 1.3684. we set the limit to 29 MiB for Exim, but tell our
users the limit is 20 MiB. (also notice that Exim erroneously uses "M"
to mean mebibytes, not megabytes.)

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Kjetil T.