Message size larger than attachments

When sending files around 2Mb, the message ends up been 14Mb in size, there
is text or extras with the message. Can anyone explain how it's happening.
Thanks

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George Mifsud

Any binary attachments are encoded into plain text using a BASE64 encoding
scheme, so they can be transmitted. This adds about 30 % of overhead to the
message. However, why its 14 MBytes, I don't know.

steve

"George Mifsud" <gmifsud@vic.globaldial.com> wrote in message
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> When sending files around 2Mb, the message ends up been 14Mb in size,
> there is text or extras with the message. Can anyone explain how it's
> happening.
> Thanks
>
> --
>
>
> George Mifsud
>

Are you automatically virus scanning outgoing emails?
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Ron Sommer

"George Mifsud" <gmifsud@vic.globaldial.com> wrote in message
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> When sending files around 2Mb, the message ends up been 14Mb in size,
> there is text or extras with the message. Can anyone explain how it's
> happening.
> Thanks
>
> --
>
>
> George Mifsud
>

If you are using HTML format and including some images or sound, that
could make the make the message much larger.

But a plain text message with a single 2 MB file attachment would
typically end up around 2.8 MB. (In a worst case scenario, where OE
guessed that the file was mostly text, but it wasn't and OE used
Quoted-printable encoding), the message could end up around 6 MB.

You may want to take a look at the Message Source (Ctrl-F3) to see what
got attached. For some additional information, see:
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"George Mifsud" <gmifsud@vic.globaldial.com> wrote in message
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> When sending files around 2Mb, the message ends up been 14Mb in size,
> there is text or extras with the message. Can anyone explain how it's
> happening.
> Thanks
>
> --
>
>
> George Mifsud
>