On Friday 19 January 2007 04:09, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 08:01 -0500, Marc Sherman wrote: > > Attachments are generally encoded as base64 by MUAs, which tends to > > expand their size by 140%. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#MIME > > I updated Wikipedia so it says 137%. the expansion is actually 4/3 * > 78/76 == 1.3684. we set the limit to 29 MiB for Exim, but tell our > users the limit is 20 MiB. (also notice that Exim erroneously uses "M" > to mean mebibytes, not megabytes.)
I can accept that as a historical mistake and a compromise (it simplifies
parsing a tiny bit), but the documentation should be updated.
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