Mailscanner changing the size of attachment

[Pedro Bordin Hoffmann - [M]orpheus]

So the answer is becouse it encode the messages?
Is there a way to fix it?

Will he always change de real file size?

thanks
2008/5/7 Ed <theodrake at comcast.net>:

> Pedro Bordin Hoffmann - [M]orpheus wrote:
>
> > 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?
> >
> This isn't caused by Mailscanner its just the effect of sending a binary
> file using SMTP.
>
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