> 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
incre
Again, this has nothing to do with IMAP, but with the way mail clients
encode attachments. The encoding process makes them bigger, and happens
before the message ever touches an IMAP server.
Attachments encoding using methods like Base64 or UUencoding are
typically much larger than the origina
>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 ma
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 als
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
