By default each mailbox has a quota of 2 GB or 100,000 e-mails; however, no single e-mail can be larger than 100 MB. Some hosting packages differ so it is important to check your package infor in your account
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An e-mail is made up of the e-mail text and an encoded version of any binary attachments. As an example You attach an an image file in JPEG format to an email, this is encoded to base64, this new encoded version of the JPEG takes up more space than the actual JPEG file, due to the encoding procedures. Because of the base64 encoding an e-mail may be limited to a size closer to 70MB.
Article ID: 55, Created On: 12/22/2011, Modified: 12/22/2011