[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: question about sendmail and bandwidth



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

--------- if you cut here, you'll probably destroy your monitor ----------
This message was sent by Alon Altman (Psycho99@bigfoot.com) ICQ:1366540
The RIGHT way to contact me is by e-mail. I am otherwise nonexistent :)



=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request@linux.org.il with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request@linux.org.il