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E-Mail Attachment with Sendmail

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by sajoe

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Hi,

I am newbie to Linux and sucessfully setup the RH7.3 server with sendmail (for smtp) configured.

I have only one issue on sendmail while sending my attachment it is always 30% more of the size of original message. Am I doing any mistake on the configuration? Please help me.

Warm Regards,
Sathish.

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by ianatonlineloop.nocom

This is no mistake, this is what is expected to
happen. Attatchments are not sent in their
binary form, but encoded into a 7 bit format
which typically causes about a 30% increase in
size.

In the good old days when mail systems couldonly accept text, such encodings were created so
that binary files could be sent as an email
attatchment. Although theoretically possible
today to change this, it would involve massive
software rewritings and massive net wide
reinstallations of software, and all at the same
time, which is something that simply will not
happen.

Simply, what you are seeing is correct
behaviour. Don't worry about it :)

Ian

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