Hisham Ali wrote: > Hi, > > When i send an email with attachment the message size sent is larger > than the actual on by at least 20%. > Is this normaol or what?
Yes. The attachment is being uuencoded or base64 encoded. Both make the attachment grow in size (by 33.33333%). Both encoding schemes represent the entire range of ASCII characters using just the printable ones. They do this by splitting 3 bytes of the original across 4 bytes (thus only needing 6 bits per byte). > If not how can i solve this. Design an encoding scheme that can represent the ASCII character set using only printable characters but which doesn't incur any overhead? ;P) Seriously, if your concerned about bandwidth then I think that the encoded form is more compressible by your modem than the binary original so the actual amount of data sent "over the wire" is the same or less. HTH Regards, Parish > > Thanks > Hisham > >
