Re: Aaron Bartell Email Utility

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

Hi, John:

Thanks for the clarifications.

Mark

> On 11/13/2012 1:06 PM, John Yeung wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Mark S Waterbury
> <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi, Eric:
> >
> > As far as I can tell, MIME encoding doubles the actual size (number of
> > bytes transmitted).
> >
> > Mark
> For very short e-mail, the overhead of the MIME format (additional
> headers and such) can be large compared to the useful content.  But
> for attachments, it's much less than double.
>
> The most common encoding used by MIME-formatted messages is Base64,
> which in principle requires 4 bytes for every 3 encoded.  So the
> encoding of any particular attachment should be about 33% larger.
> That's just for the Base64 encoding, though.  Various sources on the
> Web cite the overall overhead for MIME e-mail at 37%.  There are more
> precise calculations you can do if you're really interested and
> pedantic.
>
> John
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
> http://techhelp.santovec.us/decode.htm
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1533113/calculate-the-size-to-a-base-64-encoded-message