One additional not regarding imaged served by mail server as opposed to web servers -
web servers send images in raw format (8-bit)
so a 30k images will be delivered in 30k bytes. A mail server sends mail in 7 bit
format so the image needs to be MIME-encode in
the email. MIME encoding typically adds 50-100% to the size of the image so you would
be delivering 45-60k of data for the 30k
image.
Regards,
Howie Hamlin - inFusion Project Manager
On-Line Data Solutions, Inc.
www.CoolFusion.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Lancelot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 1:10 PM
Subject: RE: The biggest cfmail message?
> few reasons
>
> 1: Bandwidth on your mailserver
>
> Depending on the number of recipients your webserver is probably far better
> optimized for serving images, than your mail server is of sending large
> numbers of large emails - and the load would be far more distributed as
> people read their mail, rather than all in one batch when they get sent.
> (also with any bounced messages - the original email is often attached - and
> could put additional unneccessary strain on your mailserver)
>
> 2: Initial Time to display email
>
> Although in absolute terms you're right - it probably take longer to go
> fetch the images from the live site, the email would appear readable to the
> recipient as soon as all the mail is recieved - and the images could
> download in the background as the mail is being read.
>
> 3: User Impatience
>
> Depending on the file size, and the users bandwidth, they may not be
> prepared to wait for ages for some unknown massive email to download -
> whereas when they have it in their inbox they know what it is...
>
> 4: Cheapo ISP's restricted mailbox sizes...
>
> Some ISP's have really low size limits on their mailbox size - and will
> bounce messages that won't fit - My old uni only gave 300kb - though I think
> most commercial ISP's are better...
>
> HTH
>
> Dan
>
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