Re: [Lynx-dev] Ot: how email size is established?

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi Karen,

> I am sending a file that is slightly larger than 7 meg.
> However I am getting a users.shellworld.net error claiming that  the file
> exceeds the slightly above 10 meg size restriction.

this is rather offtopic, but, yes, files sent by email are
enlarged by four thirds because of the way they have to be
encoded (this is also true for e.g. messages in mostly Asian
scripts).

So you can say 7.5 MiB * 4/3 = 10 MiB, plus the message itself
and some metainformation, which is a couple of KiB, can already
be too much.

bye,
//mirabilos
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21:49⎜<allamoox:#sendmail> I have a question guys,
     ⎜    Can I use my PC as SMTP server, I use Windows 7 .
     ⎜    Already googled and Installed IIS
     ⎜    but Still I can't send E-mail