On Fri, 25 May 2001, E.B. Dreger wrote:
Methinks that it's proxy time. Why not hack the popular MTAs so that they take attachments, spool them in a Web-accessible directory, then modify the message.
Just like e-cards...
ATTACHMENTS:
1. http://some.domain.tld/path/to/sample/file.jpg 2. http://another.place.tld/second-attachment.doc
Go to the link, receive a warning that they must save the file after download, that it will be deleted after successful download. Or delete it after a few days. Or maybe users could manage their Web spool, deleting messages as they please.
There are some details to work out, but is the "FTP upload" not a task that we could automatically perform for users?
This is actually one of the more constructive comments in the (off-topic for nanog) thread. I don't email is the correct vehicle for large documents (size > 1M), but getting the public to do the correct-but-more-difficult thing is a losing battle. If ISPs took it upon themselves to convert attachments to http/ftp on-the-fly and transparently to users you would have a sol'n that should work for everyone. Authentication could easily be added via MD5 checksums (ala ezmlm) and encription could even be added via https. For those of us that want to change the world, it's much easier to take action and change the system then to try and convert all the users. Matt __________________________ http://www.invision.net/ _______________________ Matthew E. Martini, PE InVision.com, Inc. (631) 543-1000 x104 Chief Technology Officer matt@invision.net (631) 864-8896 Fax _______________________________________________________________________pgp_