From: "J Messeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > But why would there be two settings for > essentially the same decision?
Maybe "get entire message" refers to the text portion of the message, whereas the "max size" includes the attachments. Just a guess. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "J Messeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [Treo] Versamail truncating download >I certainly understand the concept. In fact, I remember well the days >of > uuencode and uudecode. And I know html and message headers use up more > bandwidth. Still, I was surprised to find the total in excess of 3Mb. > I > don't remember how small I had to make the picture file to get it out, > and it wasn't difficult -- I think I dropped the from 600 (my picture > was in work to be a digital painting) to 300 (which is way more than > sufficient to display on most folks' 98dpi monitors. > But 20-40 pct? If I'd not had the experience, I'd not have believed > it. As it is, I don't doubt it. > > On the other hand, I still don't understand what's happening with > Versamail. There's a setting that says Get: that I've set to Entire > Message. AND there's a setting that says Maximum message size: that I > have set to 5120 KB because that's the maximum size allowable. > But why would there be two settings for essentially the same > decision? > > Jeffrey Kaplan wrote: >> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 07:53:54 -0400 J Messeder said: >> >> >> Properly constructed HTML messages bodies are a bit over twice the >> size >> of a plain text message, because it should have a plain text section >> and an HTML section. Which one is shown to the recipient depends on >> the capabilities of their email client. So if a plain text message, >> including headers, would be 2k, then writing the same message in an >> HTML writing client should be about 3.1k. HTML doesn't really bulk >> up >> the message more than that unless you're doing really fancy or stupid >> things like constantly changing the text layout as you go, including >> embedded elements such as graphics, java/javascript, or CSS and as >> far >> as I'm concerned, anyone who does THAT (the scripting in email) >> should >> have their fingers removed at the shoulder. Or maybe the neck, I >> haven't quite decided yet. >> >> > > -- > > /The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if > we > know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us > whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of > chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./ > A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >
