[PLUG] How MUAs See Attachment Size

[Dan Young]

On Jan 28, 2008, at 6:21 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>  
wrote:

>  This is probably something I should know, but I don't. I'm curious  
> why a
> 40.9M tarball is seen by postfix (and pine) as 56M large when  
> attached to an
> email message. The size discrepancy is more than the difference  
> between 1000
> and 1024.

Base64 encoding typically increases the size of attached binary files  
by ~20-30%.

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Dan Young