message in-content photo sizes
When T-Bird sends a message with an in-content photo, is that photo compressed to save space and transmission time?
I converted from Eudora. Eudora would compress in-content photos to save space and transmission time.
If T-Bird performs a similar action, is that compressed file saved somewhere?
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kashken1 said
When T-Bird sends a message with an in-content photo, is that photo compressed to save space and transmission time?
No.
I converted from Eudora. Eudora would compress in-content photos to save space and transmission time.
Eudora is from a time when bandwidth was scarce and folk like me hated getting mailing list entries from those in the USA where huge signature graphics were popular and all you could eat data limits were applied. Now I don't think there are many that actually know what bandwidth is, let alone care about the size of their emails, or they would trim the fat when they reply.
If T-Bird performs a similar action, is that compressed file saved somewhere?
Attachments, and embedded graphics are attachments just hidden ones are and always have been since email has had attachments, transmitted as MIME encoded text. Attachments on the whole grow around 30% by virtue of the mime encoding process. The Eudora 6.2 manual https://web.stanford.edu/dept/its/support/ess/doc_archive/ess/mac/docs/eudora6/eudora62_manual.pdf makes a lot of attachments as files and maintains the friction that they are files. They are not. They are a part of the body text of the email that is defined as an attachment.
This addon I think does the resizing of images you talked of. https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/inline-image-resizer/?src=search
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kashken1 said
When T-Bird sends a message with an in-content photo, is that photo compressed to save space and transmission time?
No.
I converted from Eudora. Eudora would compress in-content photos to save space and transmission time.
Eudora is from a time when bandwidth was scarce and folk like me hated getting mailing list entries from those in the USA where huge signature graphics were popular and all you could eat data limits were applied. Now I don't think there are many that actually know what bandwidth is, let alone care about the size of their emails, or they would trim the fat when they reply.
If T-Bird performs a similar action, is that compressed file saved somewhere?
Attachments, and embedded graphics are attachments just hidden ones are and always have been since email has had attachments, transmitted as MIME encoded text. Attachments on the whole grow around 30% by virtue of the mime encoding process. The Eudora 6.2 manual https://web.stanford.edu/dept/its/support/ess/doc_archive/ess/mac/docs/eudora6/eudora62_manual.pdf makes a lot of attachments as files and maintains the friction that they are files. They are not. They are a part of the body text of the email that is defined as an attachment.
This addon I think does the resizing of images you talked of. https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/inline-image-resizer/?src=search
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