Closed Bug 306227 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

wrong file size of messages with attachments

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mailbox, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050827 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050827 Firefox/1.0+

If I create a new message (for testing purposes at best without any text) and
attach a file and send this, the file-size of that email is much bigger than the
attachment.

Example: 
file size of attachment is 6379kbytes (6,22 Mbytes).
The email with that attachment is 8742 kbytes big.

Why such a big difference? I've only attached one file.

Reproducible: Always
Well, without a specific attachment file to test, this report is pretty useless...
(In reply to comment #1)
> Well, without a specific attachment file to test, this report is pretty useless...

This problem happens with all attachments....
if the attachment is binary, it needs to be encoded into a non-binary format to
be sent, usually base64 encoding, which makes the message bigger.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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