When
you are transmitting a binary file, like a picture, the actual size
of
the transmission increases.
Why?
Because the binary data is being transmitted in visible characters,
sort
of 6 bit "bytes". In other words 8 bit bytes are expanded into 6
bit
"bytes". So the size increases by at least 8/6 = 33%.
On
top of that you have all the mail headers.
View
the "Message Source" of a received message containing pictures
sometime
and note the
"Content-Transfer-Encoding:
base64" tag preceeding the block of 6-bit
ASCII
characters representing the picture. 6 bits gives you 64 possible
characters.
Finn
So I guess Marv was
right – it’s the new math.
Al
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"Al Gietzen" <ALVentures@cox.net>:
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Marv;
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How does your e-mail system add-up bytes? I sent a posting that had 3
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attached files totaling 82KB. The letter itself was 224 bytes. It
was
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rejected as beign over 100KB.
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Maybe it's time to increase the limit?
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Al
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