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

[Patrick Morris]

Again, this has nothing to do with IMAP, but with the way mail clients 
encode attachments.  The encoding process makes them bigger, and happens 
before the message ever touches an IMAP server.

Attachments encoding using methods like Base64 or UUencoding are 
typically much larger than the original files, and there's nothing 
unusual about .  It's just the way e-mail works.

If you're concerned about the files being as big as they are, you really 
need to look at where it's happening: on the client, not on the server.

Zoran Kikic wrote:

>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!
>  
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