[Mimedefang] message/partial
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Sun Dec 5 21:20:15 EST 2004
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Carlton Thomas wrote:
> We advise our clients to send multi-part messages to overcome the
> 10 meg limit we impose on a single message.
Wouldn't it be easier on you and your clients to have a pool of disk
space to/from which people could exchange large files? Then they just
need to upload the file (using a Web interface, for example), obtain
a URL and send that to the recipient. A cleanup process could empty
out old files periodically.
> One possible solution to handle viruses in these types of messages is
> to create a mimedefang filter which recognises the first part of a
> multipart message and impose a minimum size limit on that part.
That's an interesting idea, but dangerous. Nothing says a virus has
to be small.
> Would this be a suitable compromise, and is it possible to implement
> it using in a mimedefang filter?
It's easy to implement in a mimedefang filter, but I don't think it's a
good idea.
Regards,
David.
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