Re: [vaguely OT] Emails with large files

2006-03-22 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:56 AM, John Peacock wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Is it really worth this much trouble just to accommodate a replacement mailer that causes this problem in the first place? Yes, because this has been longstanding need for completely different reasons. I work for a pub

Re: [vaguely OT] Emails with large files

2006-03-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 12:56, John Peacock wrote: > I work for a publishing company, with multiple offices scattered about > the country and authors scattered around the world. We have the need to > somehow manage to transfer 15MB PDF's freely in and out of our offices > (for editing, review, e

Re: [vaguely OT] Emails with large files

2006-03-22 Thread John Peacock
Les Mikesell wrote: Is it really worth this much trouble just to accommodate a replacement mailer that causes this problem in the first place? Yes, because this has been longstanding need for completely different reasons. I work for a publishing company, with multiple offices scattered about

Re: [vaguely OT] Emails with large files

2006-03-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 12:10, John Peacock wrote: > > The thing that breaks is digests of the whole message, > > if people are sending pgp-signed attachments. The system ideally would > > verify pgp signatures, if provided, before breaking the message up, and > > would include a signed report on h

Re: [vaguely OT] Emails with large files

2006-03-22 Thread David Nicol
On 3/22/06, John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Nicol wrote: > > pgp-signed attachments. > bleading edge technology... ;-) So what's stopping you from using MIME::Fast or such and keeping the large attachments on a designated large attachment disk with a web interface to them, before

Re: [vaguely OT] Emails with large files

2006-03-22 Thread John Peacock
David Nicol wrote: The thing that breaks is digests of the whole message, if people are sending pgp-signed attachments. The system ideally would verify pgp signatures, if provided, before breaking the message up, and would include a signed report on how the verification went to replace the signe

Re: [vaguely OT] Emails with large files

2006-03-22 Thread David Nicol
On 3/22/06, John Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guillaume Filion wrote: > > I don't think that your users want to use a web interface to share > > files, use the plugin for both incoming and outgoing messages. Your > > users will only have to send an email with attachment, as they > > usually

Re: [vaguely OT] Emails with large files

2006-03-22 Thread John Peacock
Guillaume Filion wrote: I don't think that your users want to use a web interface to share files, use the plugin for both incoming and outgoing messages. Your users will only have to send an email with attachment, as they usually do, to use the system. That's an interesting thought. I still

Re: [vaguely OT] Emails with large files

2006-03-21 Thread Guillaume Filion
Le 06-03-21, à 14:10, John Peacock a écrit : I am considering writing a post-data plugin to strip large attachments out and put them on some sort of shared site (HTTP or FTP), and replace the file in the message with a link to the file. [...] 1) Does this seem like a sane way to deal with it?

[vaguely OT] Emails with large files

2006-03-21 Thread John Peacock
We are starting to evaluate Zimbra as our new mail client/server: http://www.zimbra.com (and it looks pretty nice). One unfortunate limitation, however, is that they have a hard 5MB limit on the size of e-mail messages (since they are stored in a database, not the filesystem). As muc