RE: Max Size for Attachment
I have observed that while sending mails with a pdf attachment, the size of the pdf attachment changes when it reaches the destination.Sometimes(randomly).i am not able to open the pdf attachment...gives an error like error reading the document. The attachment behaves differently if the destination site is hotmail and differently if the destination is lycos. What could be the possible solution to this.Is this a 'hotmail problem'? -- Manish Masand -Original Message- From: David Champion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2001 03:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Max Size for Attachment On 2001.07.10, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eugene Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:41:05AM +0700, Efata wrote: : : I have fetch email from my friend with attachment file 2.8 MB. And I read : this email with mutt and I view attachment and save it. But after I save the : size change only 2M. It is right or not? This is normal. Attachments are often encoded to prevent data corruption when sent via email. But this encoding process often inflates the size of attachments by 30-40%. So with you, an inflated size of 2.8 MB and an actual size of 2 MB is quite normal. This is typically (probably always) a base-64 encoding, meaning that every 3 bytes are encoded as 4, so your attachment inflates by exactly 33%. (The original file is 75% the size of the encoded attachment.) % echo 2.8 .75 \* p | dc 2.10 Your detached file should be about 2.1 MB. -- -D.[EMAIL PROTECTED]NSITUniversity of Chicago
Max Size for Attachment
I have fetch email from my friend with attachment file 2.8 MB. And I read this email with mutt and I view attachment and save it. But after I save the size change only 2M. It is right or not? Thanks
Re: Max Size for Attachment
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:41:05AM +0700, Efata wrote: : : I have fetch email from my friend with attachment file 2.8 MB. And I read : this email with mutt and I view attachment and save it. But after I save the : size change only 2M. It is right or not? This is normal. Attachments are often encoded to prevent data corruption when sent via email. But this encoding process often inflates the size of attachments by 30-40%. So with you, an inflated size of 2.8 MB and an actual size of 2 MB is quite normal. -- Eugene Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Max Size for Attachment
On 2001.07.10, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eugene Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 06:41:05AM +0700, Efata wrote: : : I have fetch email from my friend with attachment file 2.8 MB. And I read : this email with mutt and I view attachment and save it. But after I save the : size change only 2M. It is right or not? This is normal. Attachments are often encoded to prevent data corruption when sent via email. But this encoding process often inflates the size of attachments by 30-40%. So with you, an inflated size of 2.8 MB and an actual size of 2 MB is quite normal. This is typically (probably always) a base-64 encoding, meaning that every 3 bytes are encoded as 4, so your attachment inflates by exactly 33%. (The original file is 75% the size of the encoded attachment.) % echo 2.8 .75 \* p | dc 2.10 Your detached file should be about 2.1 MB. -- -D.[EMAIL PROTECTED]NSITUniversity of Chicago
