[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.58-BETA-1 is available

[Damrose, Mark]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David F. Skoll

> Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> > If I had to guess, a way to get around max message sizes 
> which at the 
> > time were plaguing usenet.

> Well, system administrators generally have a good reason for 
> setting the maximum message size, and for RFC authors to 
> attempt to subvert that is just plain wrong.

Agree in principle.

I'll just point out that breaking up large attachments into
multiple messages was fairly common before MIME even existed.
There were clients that would automatically break up
uuencode attachments.  There were even clients that would
attempt to understand the part 1/5, part 2/5, etc. subject
lines and re-assemble/uudecode for you.

It wasn't to get around size limits per se - as they weren't 
common at the MTA level yet.  It wouldn't have gotten around 
file system quotas anyway.  It was mostly so that large 
messages wouldn't clog up the queues or monopolize the 
expensive connections.

Anyway, making new protocols/formats take into account and
support existing behavior is (or was) the Internet way.