Mailscanner changing the size of attachment

[Martin.Hepworth]

Pedro

The 'file' may be 36GB but in order to get into and email you need to encode it. This adds 50% to the file, so a 36GB file will end up as a 54GB email.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Pedro Bordin Hoffmann -
> [M]orpheus
> Sent: 07 May 2008 13:33
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Mailscanner changing the size of attachment
>
> Hello.
>
> I'm using Mailscanner, postfix, and spamassassin.
>
> I attached a file with 36 MB, and I have limit of 40 MB in Mailscanner.
> but it blocks my e-mail saying that the file exceeds the maximum size.
> I enter in quarantine and it shows up almost 50MB the file.
>
> Why mailscanner changed the size of file?
> When downloading the file it says the real size.
>
> Already try to uencode the message. But file size stay the same. It was a
> .doc file with a few images on it.
>
> Thanks al!
>
> Regards
> Pedro Bordin Hoffmann
>





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