Re: Reducing outgoing mail size

[Charles Cazabon <qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bhagwan Gupta <contactbhagwan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I think - qmail sends mail as a combination of two
> formats - plain text(first copy) plus HTML (second
> copy but in the same mail). Is it true?

No.  qmail just sends whatever it is told to send; to qmail, it's a string of
bytes, and nothing more.  It's the user's MUA that composes the mail.

> whatever the case, but, if I want that the mail going out of my mailserver
> should only contain the plain text, not the second copy of the data in
> HTML(or other) format.  I am thinking this, to reduce the size of the mail.

It would reduce the amount of data transferred to send mail -- but doing this
in the MTA is simply wrong, and would be very ugly to accomplish.  Have your
users configure their MUAs to send plain-text only.  Very simple, very
reliable.

Charles
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