I have a couple of follow up questions on a topic that was discussed in July, 2003. Apparently MS Outlook may say that your message is 1 MB (for example) including attachments, but when you try to send the message it fails because it BECOMES larger than that during the SMTP process. 1. Is this true for all mail servers, or just Imail? 2. Does this happen for HTML only or Rich Text and Plain text too? 3. Can anyone expand upon Tripp's explanation below? What exactly happens and why? 4. What kind of expansion is typical? 10%, 50%? 5. When it was downloaded by the recipient, would it revert back to registering in Outlook as 1 MB? 6. Does this only happen with MS Outlook?
Thanks! ~Amy Cozine --------------------- July 2003 Thread: If your attachment is a binary file, the file will be encoded by your mail client so it can be sent through SMTP. This encoding can make the actual message much larger than the original attachment size. Tripp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jolin C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:56 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] Max message size 552 > > Server config: Windows 2k, SP2, Imail7.07, Declude JunkMail, Pentium 3, > 866mhz , 512 mb > > I have set Max Single Message Size to 6mb on one of our domains, reboot > the server . > I have confirmed the changes in the registry settings. > > Test: > The maximun size that I can still send is a maximun size of is about > 3mb attachments. > The server returns a " 552 Message size exceeds fixed max message size." > on any size larger To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
