Re: Aaron Bartell Email Utility

[Mark S Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Eric:

As far as I can tell, MIME encoding doubles the actual size (number of 
bytes transmitted).

Mark

> On 11/13/2012 10:57 AM, DeLong, Eric wrote:
> I wonder how big that sucker gets during mime encoding?  That is the most unfortunate part of sending large binary attachments, imo.
>
> Compression of large attachments is easy, and helps quite a bit, but it's just a workaround.  Use a better tool for delivery...  I like to park the attachment on a server, then send them a link to their file.
>
> Jmo,
> -Eric DeLong
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 2:09 PM
> To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
> Subject: Re: Aaron Bartell Email Utility
>
> Andy,
>
> Just did I quick test with Aaron's RPGMail utility and a large attachment
> and got an error when trying to send it, just like you.
>
> JAVAMail (on which RPGMail is based) has supposedly no limitations
> regarding the attachment size, so I suppose this could be a limitation of
> the implementation in the IBM i
>
> Also tried to send the same email using MMAIL's routines. Did not received
> any error, but at the same time the test email did not appear at its
> destination. It could have been a problem with our server, though.
>
>
> HTH,
> Luis Rodriguez
> IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries