Mailscanner changing the size of attachment

[Julian Field]

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Pedro Bordin Hoffmann - [M]orpheus wrote:
> So the answer is becouse it encode the messages?
Yes.
> Is there a way to fix it?
No. That's how email works. Get used to it :-)
>
> Will he always change de real file size?
>
> thanks
> 2008/5/7 Ed <theodrake at comcast.net <mailto: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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Jules

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