www.ritlabs.com [Topic: Huge Emails] http://www.ritlabs.com New posts in Huge Emails of forum at www.ritlabs.com [www.ritlabs.com] en http://backend.userland.com/rss2 Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:58:38 +0200 Huge Emails Huge Emails What size is this? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
OH! I get it now. So, a 800kb e-mail on my ISP would be 800,000 bytes in The Bat! as a more exact number (i.e. no rounding off).
11 February 2006 15:58:38, Jimmy Vickery.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10302/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10302/ Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:58:38 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Huge Emails Huge Emails What size is this? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
That doesn't contradict. Apparently your ISP rounds off to kilobytes, nothing wromg with that. TB gives the sizes in bytes without rounding off, no problem with that either.
11 February 2006 05:02:38, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10297/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10297/ Sat, 11 Feb 2006 05:02:38 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Huge Emails Huge Emails What size is this? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
I thought if I waited long enough some spam would have arrived giving me an example to work with.

I just received 2 spam e-mails. On my ISP they read that they are 2k in size. Yes, a little k.

However, in The Bat! One reads 1,514 and the other 1,829.

Meanwhile, I also got a spam e-mail that my ISP reads that it is 1k in size. The Bat! reads 729b.

You can see how this would be real confusing for me. The numbers are not exact they contradict each other.
10 February 2006 21:30:21, Jimmy Vickery.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10295/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10295/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:30:21 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Huge Emails Huge Emails What size is this? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Well, I got an e-mail from a friend today, and it was a 7 digit number. It was a 5MB e-mail, and the number in The Bat! reads: 5,000,000

However, it was much higher than that. All I can recall is that it started with a 5 and was a 7 digit number. So, in The Bat! I remember that 1MB didn't equal 1024KB. I don't do well with math so when the rules change I get real confused. :oops:  
10 February 2006 19:39:02, Jimmy Vickery.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10290/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10290/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:39:02 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Huge Emails Huge Emails What size is this? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
As you know computers use a binary system. So in stead of 10 100 1000 they're counting like 2 4 8 16 .... 1024.
That's why the computer wizards of old decided that a kilobyte would better fit when it was 1024 bytes in stead of 1000.
Whenever kilobytes are mentioned check whether they're written kB or KB, the lower case k is the official SI prefix meaning 1000, the capital K is often used as 1024.
To confuse things even more the M for mega means either 1000*1000 or 1024*1024 and there's no way to distinguish them. (Yes the problem even gets worse for gigabytes.)
This is the source of your confusion.
So when 1000 KB doesn't equal 1 MB then you should try 1024 KB.

And to complicate things even more. When somebody's telling you he's sending a 900 KB attachment, the message will be 1200 KB, due to necessary encoding.
10 February 2006 18:48:53, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10287/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10287/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:48:53 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Huge Emails Huge Emails What size is this? in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Some people send me e-mails that are 1MB or larger. The problem with this is I have dial-up and when I try to download an e-mail that is that size my ISP times out and knocks me offline.

I want to set the K bytes in The Bat! so that e-mails that size are just deleted from the server. What number do I place in that box?

I thought 1,000KB equaled 1MB. However, when I check the e-mail size in The Bat! my numbers are not adding up correctly.
10 February 2006 18:26:40, Jimmy Vickery.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10283/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic2571/message10283/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:26:40 +0200 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client