Deaken wrote:
> 
> Hugo wrote:
> >
> > >I hate Netscape
> > >800K->1.35M?  That's ridiculous.
> >
> > I don't know if you blame Netscape for the extra file size, but it's not
> > Netscapes fault.. As rediculous as it is, this is just the way emails work..
> 
> When I MIME-encode the images on a unix flavor (from shell and from an
> email program, on both Linux and OpenBSD), I get the approximate 4/3
> filesize that I expect.  When I let Netscape do it, it is ungodly huge.
> The same thing happens when I try to send them via email using
> Netscape.  I will glady accept evidence that it's not Netscape's fault.

Disable HTML message composition and check that your not uuencoding
instead of base64!

Otherwise, the image might get encoded twice: once for text/plain, and
another for text/html in the Mime multipart/alternative.
The Mime standard is crippled with the problem of referencing various
entities outside of each alternatives, so when Html is also generated
(because text/plain is usually mandatory), there is no simple solution
rather than putting the attachment in each alternative.


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