[imp] wrong attachment size, again

[Martin Kaehmer]

Hallo Michael,

--On Sonntag, 3. August 2003 15:31 -0600 Michael M Slusarz 
<slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu> wrote:

> Quoting Martin Kaehmer <martink-ml at gmx.net>:
>
>| Hi all,
>|
>| just found another bug in imp (cvs 29.07.2003). If you add an attachment,
>| its size is calculated before it is mime-encoded. That way only a smaller
>| total size of the mail is checked against attach_size_limit than it
>| should.
>| If you finally send that mail, all parts get encoded and the total size
>| may grow over attach_size_limit.
>
> No this is not a bug - this is expected behavior.  Telling the user they
> have a 5MB limit, and they then upload a 4.9 MB file and it gets rejected,
> would be completely unexpected.

ack, but the same user will have difficulties to understand why he can send 
this 4.9MB mail to himself, but can't forward it afterwards anymore. If you 
forward a mail containing attachments, its parts are already mime-encoded. 
Therefore the displayed size of the mail will be 33% bigger than before. 
That's a little inconsistency in handling attachments.

What about having both sizes on the compose page (at least for new 
attachments), but using the bigger one for the total size?

Martin