[Mailman-Users] Re: PDF Attachments

[Larry Hansford]

At 08:08 PM 10/2/2001, Greg Ward wrote:
>On 02 October 2001, Larry Hansford said:
> > Thanks, Greg!  The problem seems to be solved, but I'm not sure why.  I
> > checked my Eudora setup, and all seemed well.  I went into the "TEST" 
> group
> > admin page, and changed the setting for message size from the default of
> > 40K to 120K -- the actual PDF attachment I was testing with is 39K -- and
> > re-started Sendmail to ensure all was clean with it's load, aliases.db
> > file, etc.  I then re-sent the message, and all came through properly.
>
>Glad to hear it.
>
>Is PDF a binary format?  If so, a 39k file will probably be
>base64-encoded to 1.5*39k, blowing the 40k message limit.  Even if not,
>the overhead of MIME crud and headers might push it past 40k.  Whatever.
>
>         Greg

Yes, it is a binary file.  If the first message I had attempted had been 
larger -- say 45K -- it would have blocked the message and I would have had 
to fix the setting the first time.  Murphy's Law, you know.  <g>

Larry