"Johnny" wrote in message ...
Why when I send an email with a Jpeg attached does it end up a lot
larger when it gets to the recipient. Probably like an 800 kb pic
ends up at approx 1300 kb when it arrives.


ALL e-mail gets sent as plain-text. HTML-formatted e-mails contain tags
to encode bolding, italics, etc., but they are still plain-text. All
attachments, binary or text, are text within the message. They get
encoded into MIME parts that encode the attachment into a text block
that gets reconstructed by the recipient using their e-mail client to
read the MIME part. Everything in the e-mail that gets sent and
received is just text. Encoding binary files into a text block will
increase the number of bytes for that text which represents the binary.