> 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!
Check out http://www.piclist.com/techref/method/encode.htm. The increase of size depends on the encoding used for the attached data. -Reko
