Mailscanner changing the size of attachment

[Martin.Hepworth]

This is how files are transmitted my email. You have to convert 'binary' files into ascii which is how email works.

Therefore the file 'grows' by 50% when in an 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 15:28
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner changing the size of attachment
>
> 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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