Sergey, thanks for the formula. One last thing: I wonder if the SMTP overhead is important to take into account for small messages.

Thanks,
Javier.

>Hi Javier,
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>The attachments are encoded before they are send. The different methods used to do that known as "Quoted-Printable", "Base64", UUENCODE, e.t.c. Encoding increases the size of attachment by 25%-35%. To show progress you don't need exact size, so following formula should work for you.

EmailSize = (BodySize + AttachmentSize) * 1.35

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>>I want to show a progress bar when sending a message. I use SEE DLL which tells me the total bytes sent, but I need to know in advance the size of the message including attachments. Is there any way to calculate it?