On 8/5/2011 9:12 AM, Magnus Bäck wrote: > On Friday, August 05, 2011 at 15:37 CEST, > Nikolaos Milas <nmi...@noa.gr> wrote: > >> A quick question: message_size_limit refers to the MIME-encoded >> (base64) "final" message size or to the initial (non-encoded) size >> of message + attachments? > > The former. That's the only representation of an email that's ever sent > or stored. > >> (Encoded message size should be about 30% larger than the original, >> so if we want to allow attachments of max size e.g. 30MB, then we >> should set a limit of about 40MB?) > > Yes.
Or do the smart thing: use a file transfer protocol for transferring files instead of an email protocol. HTTP and FTP are readily available good examples. -- Stan
