Anne Wilson wrote: > So 'size_limit' is what I'm looking for. Thanks everyone. Now comes the > really hard bit. I have to tell her, blindfolded, how to tell the size of > the message she is sending. She uses btinternet's yahoo mailer, and I > haven't a clue what she can see there. :-) Don't forget to account for encoding overhead, which can be up to 30% (maybe more). nate