On Freitag, 1. Juni 2007 Paul J Stevens wrote:
> Half right. The 512k boundary will be dropped. It was there for
> historical reasons (read: mysql-3.0) and there is no need for it at
> all anymore. The messages will be split into logical first level
> mimeparts: no recursion.

Even better so. :-) 
BLOB fields and 64bit CPUs can even store a complete DVD as a single 
attachment :-)

> Definitely. We need an algorithm that will prevent collisions at all
> cost. Such checksums will only be calculated during insertion to
> ensure uniqueness of the attachment so they will not affect the
> retrieval processes (pop/imap).

Maybe the name of the attachment, and its type, could be stored together 
with md5? That should be really enough I think.

> That said, "high secret" stuff should of course have been encrypted
> to begin with.

I agree totally, but who actually uses PGP (except me ;-)? End users 
often believe that if they make a signature where they write "this is 
top secret", that the computer automatically decides to take care of 
that. We've even had bio-pharma companies storing "top secret" 
documents on FTP. No SSL, nothing.. yak!

mfg zmi
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