Michael Collette wrote: > > > The main counterpoint to this is that it is important to maintain the > integrity of the mbox format for backups and portability. By changing to a > different way of handling things would overly complicate portability > between OS's and mail clients. Dataloss involving AV apps should be should > be considered the responsiblity of the AV vendors. Attachments are part of > the E-Mail message, and should remain as such unless the entire message is > deleted. > (note: I hope I'm fairly representing this) >
An additional complication is how you would avoid breaking digital signatures using S/MIME for example. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk/ Personal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior crypto engineer, Gemplus: http://www.gemplus.com/ Core developer of the OpenSSL project: http://www.openssl.org/ Business Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: via homepage.
