On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 4:26 PM John R. Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I see a like option set already in Gmail. > > > > I can attach an object in line or add a link to it in their cloud. > > We've had message/external-body for over 20 years. See RFC 2017. > > I realize it's not implemented all that widely but it's there if anyone > wants it. > The aim of the Mesh was to start off with a completely green field approach ignoring all existing infrastructure to see what the system would then look like. Having done that, it is of course entirely reasonable to look at how we might retrofit the feature set to the existing mail infrastructure. And in fact that is one of the things that the Mesh helps with. I can use the Mesh to manage my S/MIME and OpenPGP keys across my devices and achieve zero-effort security. But this is also like building a high speed rail system and only using it to move the spare parts needed to keep Amtrack running. The other point here is that there is a big difference between use of detachments as an optional feature you can choose to implement and use and use of detachments as something you are absolutely forced to use because Mesh Messages are limited to 65535 bytes and the service won't accept them if they are 65536. Limiting the messages in the control channel means that a service should never end up being blocked because 16 different users are all receiving 10MB files at the same time. It also means that we can support really enormous files seamlessly - provided that the recipient actually wants the data.
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