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
