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Re: question about sendmail and bandwidth
- To: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org>
- Subject: Re: question about sendmail and bandwidth
- From: Alon Altman <alon(at-nospam)vipe.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 17:09:04 +0300 (IDT)
- Cc: Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz(at-nospam)magnifire.net>, <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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- In-Reply-To: <m33dae7kke.fsf@erwin.comgates.co.il>
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On 9 May 2001, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
(snip)
> How big are the emails? If people send really big attachments as a
> matter of course, the emails can clog the line easily. It is not
> unusual to see a few pages of Word inflate to a few MB (hereafter
> b is bit, B is byte). Let's do the math, assuming you really get
> 128Kb/s, and 1B=8b:
>
> 1 MB / 128Kb/s = 62.5 s = 1 minute + change.
.. You forgot the base64 encoding that is applied to attachments that
inflates the data about x1.5, which results in 93.75s = 1.5 min + change...
Alon
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