Michael Collette wrote: >I'd still like to >find a more definitive reference to mbox than the rather brief man page I >linked to above. Mainly I would like to find out if linking to an >attachment rather than storing it encoded is actually breaking the spec. >It seems that mbox is open to some pretty wide interpretation depending on >how you wish to implement it. > Yes, IIRC, mbox is more an ad-hoc standard.
The question is less if we are violating any spec, but how easy it is to deal with the data. Most apps expect the whole message to be together. Also, in some cases, you need the original message. Reconstructing it after it has been separated is cumbersome or impossible.
