On Friday 19 January 2007 04:09, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
> 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.)
I can accept that as a historical mistake and a compromise (it simplifies
parsing a tiny bit), but the documentation should be updated.
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Magnus Holmgren holmgren@???
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Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack)" -- Dave Evans
