3 kb mail from windows mail client mutate to 21 kb in imap mailbox

[Reko Turja]

> hmm ok but a 2.13 MB binary attachment become 2.98 MB big in IMAP
> mailbox! I think 1/3 of the original mail (attachment) is somewhat
too
> much. I sent the mail from a FreeBDS client. It looks like every
mail is
> 3x bigger!

Check out http://www.piclist.com/techref/method/encode.htm. The
increase of size depends on the encoding used for the attached data.

-Reko