>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
hmm ok but a 2.13 MB binary attachment become 2.98 MB big in IMAP mailbox! I think 1/3 of the original mail (attachment) is somewhat too much. I sent the mail from a FreeBDS client. It looks like every mail is 3x bigger! Zoran