In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/04/2005
at 04:42 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>It seems to me that sending the dump as an Email Attachment as
>opposed to an FTP would solve this issue of having to monitor the
>FTP.
No; it would almost certainly exceed size limits every step of the way
and would be less reliable to boot.
>There is an option to define the Attachment as EXTERNAL (ie: Not
>included in the Message itself so there is no need to spool it at
>the Sending and Receiving Ends).
Not in SMTP there isn't.
>What happens is that the transmission of
>the Attachment is delayed until final delivery at which point an
>automatic FTP-Type session is performed to do the transfer.
>From what to what? You seem to be describing some sort of ad hoc setup
that requires control over the software at both ends.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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