1) How large a message can you send/receive with Gmail? 2) How many email exploits have relied on HTML and MIME encoding?
I guess I'm just another BOFH, but for email text rules, and the rest I view with deep suspicion. Kurt On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:13, Ben Scott<mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Kurt Buff<kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That's especially true if the money isn't there to support the >> infrastructure. > > Certainly, if one can't afford the infrastructure to implement > business demands, that's a time when IT has to push back. "Pay up or > shut up." > > But if the money's there, it's just a matter of implementation, > assuming the policy-makers decide it is appropriate use of funds. > >> SMTP != FTP, pure and simple. > > With 8-bit MIME, SMTP might actually be better than FTP. SMTP only > uses a single port. ;-) > > The argument "email isn't designed to transfer files" is > fundamentally the wrong way to approach the problem. People find it's > convenient to send files to named recipients in outside organizations > -- and why is that wrong? IT is suppose to be an enabler. If email > isn't designed to transfer files, the correct approach is to change > the design. > > Now, the objection "most people's systems can't support that" is a > valid pragmatic argument, since new designs don't get implemented all > at once. There was a time when anything other than 7-bit ASCII plain > text, no MIME or HTML or anything else, was unacceptable for that very > reason. But the world has moved on. Now Unicode and HTML in message > bodies are quite common. > > With increases in storage capacity, server capacity, and bandwidth, > and SMTP extensions for things like Unicode and 8-bit MIME, email can > and is evolving. Google figured that out before almost anyone else > did. Whether you or your organization are on the leading or trailing > edge of the adoption curve doesn't mean it isn't so. (Note that being > on the trailing edge isn't necessarily a bad thing. Most businesses > are conservative, and rightly so.) > > I remember NetWare admins fighting tooth-and-nail against IP on LANs, too. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
