--On Sunday, November 15, 2009 19:52 +0000 Tony Finch
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, John C Klensin wrote:
>>
>> And that analysis is almost certainly one of the reasons why
>> the multipart/partial idea in MIME has never gone much of
>> anywhere as a useful tool.
>
> It was implemented by OUtlook Express and was certainly used
> in practice by many people - I think it might have been turned
> on by default in some situations. We started blocking messages
> containing partial mime parts in 2003 to prevent it from being
> used to bypass our email AV scanners, and a number of our
> users needed help to turn of the feature.
The fact that it has been turned off in order to make AV
scanners and other antimalware and antispam tools and to prevent
bypassing checks on total message size as seen by the recipient
is consistent with my comment. Please note that I didn't say
"hasn't been implemented". I said "gone much of anywhere as a
useful tool".
So I don't think we are disagreeing.
john
