I was amazed to learn how much space is taken simply by header/routing
information. I learned about that when I tried to send a 10Mb picture
and was refused by my ISP (Comcast) because I'd exceeded the 13M limit.
I wouldn't want to be quoted on the exact numbers, but the difference
was huge, and my message had not included any body text or formatting.)
But yes, the messages I was sending me last night were html --
although they actual body contained no formatting other than what
initial coding would have identified the font, etc. There were no
pictures, italics or bold to deal with in the text. I even stripped off
my formatted signature.
But to give the question a test ... same message, sent from my
laptop (Thunderbird 2) on my Comcast account to my Treo680 on my work
account, Get "Entire message" and Max size at 5120KB:
= sent as html, Treo set to receive HTML -- truncated at 1337 body
text characters
= sent as html, Treo set to received text -- truncated at 1337
= sent as plain text, Treo set to receive HTML -- truncated at 1737
= sent as plain text, Treo set to receive Text -- truncated at 1737
Judging from this test, there are about 400 characters of hidden html
coding in what I see on my screen as unformatted -- except for font
definition -- text.
But here's the interesting part: Versamail seems not to be stripping
html, even though it is set to receive Text. Note the difference in
displayed length is a function of what I sent, not what I received. I've
run each test twice, and it's consistent.
I hesitate to change from Versamail, mostly because there's not a way
(are the 650 hobbyists on the 680 OS cusomization) to get Versamail off
the Treo680, so I'd have yet another instance of software being
duplicated. And I guess I'd have to decide whether to switch to Chatter
or Snapper for my three POP accounts. And whether they would have the
same problem
Tammy Emam wrote:
> Are you sending in html, might be formatting taking up space....
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