[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.58-BETA-1 is available

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri Oct 27 10:44:45 EDT 2006


Damrose, Mark wrote:

> 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.

Right, as in alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.* :-)

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

True, I guess...

Regards,

David.



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