On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Geoff Shang <ge...@quitelikely.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Raphael Bauduin wrote:
>
>  Why is there a 2Mb+ difference between the message_size_limit value and
>> the
>> attachment size accepted? (I don't think the envelope can take 2Mb...)
>>
>
> It doesn't.  But an encoded attachment does take up quite a deal more
> space than the original file (it needs to be encoded so that it can be
> transmitted as part of an Email message).
>

This is exactly what was happening indeed!
Encoding the file with base64 yields a file of more than 10Mb

Thanks!

Raph

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