Mailscanner changing the size of attachment

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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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?
| 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.

The following article is mandatory reading material:
http://email.about.com/cs/standards/a/base64_encoding.htm

Hugo.

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	A: Yes.
	>Q: Are you sure?
	>>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
	>>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

Bored? Click on http://spamornot.org/ and rate those images.

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