Dnia 23.10.2020 o godz. 22:48:42 Adam Moffett via mailop pisze: > > An additional argument is how much support labor is it worth to > guide/force/teach the use of cloud storage compared to the risks of > allowing larger emails? One of these is things is way easier. > Someday I may bow to the needs of ignorance because it's easier.
I always wondered, why - as it seems - noone ever tried to standardize and get implemented Internet-wide a service that existed in the old academic Bitnet/EARN network. In that network, each user account was associated with two types of default inboxes: a mail inbox and a file inbox. Complementary to the email service, which worked almost the same as Internet email (RFC822 style message format, etc.) - although it was plain text only, MIME didn't yet exist at that time - there was another service called "sendfile", used to send arbitrary files to the recipient. Both services used recipient's e-mail address to send, mail messages arrived in mail inbox, and files arrived in file inbox (which was something like a special directory in the filesystem, and you could just copy the files from there). That was simple to use and worked. Why nobody ever tried to write a RFC for something like "sendfile" and implement it in MUAs? (In one of the places I worked previously, we tried to create our own poor man's "sendfile" replacement, by plugging a mail filter into a MTA, which removed from submitted messages attachments larger than a certain size, stored them on a webserver with randomly generated links, and put these links in outgoing message instead of removed attachments. The recipient could download the original file by clicking on a link received in the message. That's of course a very primitive approach, as the real implementation would have to be in the MUA). -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
