Re: 3 kb mail from windows mail client mutate to 21 kb in imap mailbox

[Patrick Morris]

Just dropping mail into an IMAP mailbox will *not* do this.  It's not 
unusual for a message to take up more disk space than the sum of its 
parts -- there's quite a bit of overhead in the encoding process (which 
happens on the mail client, not the IMAP server).  A lot of Windows 
clients will also add a bunch of extra crap onto what would normally be 
a short, text-only message.

Zoran Kikic wrote:

Hi,

I'm really confused - what's going on there? IMAP (2.2.2 beta) runs on a
FreeBSD 5.1 machine and the 3 kb example was a text mail. An 374 kb
attachment from a win mail client has 512 kb in the imap mailbox.
Thanks.
Zoran
 



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