[imp] Re: Bug#116161: imp: misreports size of attachments

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>:

> Some more bugreports from debian.
> Is this a known problem? Will it be fixed?
> > It appears that when IMP reports the size of an attached file, it reports
> > the number of characters in that section of the multi-part MIME message.
> > However, this includes the overhoad of the Base64 encoding thus making
> > a file appear 33% larger than it will be after it is saved to disk.
> > 
> > I believe imp should look at the encoding method and adjust its numbers
> > accordingly.

Sure. Patch?

-chuck

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