Re: [cobalt-users] email forwarding bandwidth

[Tim Dunn <tdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Hi All
> 
> I was just wondering..... if one of my clients forwards all his/her
> email to a off box account, say yahoo mail, and a 4MB email is sent to
> them, does the whole 4MB get sent to my server and then another 4MB sent
> out again, or is it just the email header that does that?
> 
> In other words, does email forwarding consume bandwidth?

Yes, forwarding is a store-and-forward process.  The good news is
that (I believe) yahoo.com might refuse the 4MB mail - some webmailers
refuese to accept attachments over a certain size, such as Hotmail
and 1MB.

tim

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