[Samba] Request for feedback

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Fri Jul 24 06:44:12 MDT 2009


On 7/24/2009 7:50 AM, Michael Ströder wrote:
>> I don't know about 20k, but I definitely don't see the need to allow
>> large attachments on a large mailing list like this...

> The caveat is that things are not archived completely then. URLs get
> invalid over time.

Doesn't matter. The main purpose of any large attachments would be very
limited - large backtraces/logs for troubleshooting purposes, and their
utility is short lived.

>> What I would love to find is an easy to install/configure/use mail
>> server add-on that would strip off all attachments over a configured
>> size (in our business we deal with a lot of large attachments - I have
>> to allow a max of 50MB), and drop them on a filesystem, and add a link
>> to the email then pass the email on to its destination.

> This does not work correctly with signed e-mails I guess.

Perfectly acceptable cost/benefit (for me), since it would only apply to
messages with large attachments.

-- 

Best regards,

Charles


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