On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Arun Venkataswamy <[email protected]> > wrote:> Just thinking aloud... > > Does sending a message from ID A to ID B along with a few attachments be > > this complicated? Is the email system a dinosaur of the past which still > > SMTP is actually quite simple :) Everything is text, plain or > encoded. That's all there is to it. It is storing the mail in the box, > indexing it, retrieving it that is a little complex. > > Ok... Got to accept that I have done no research. Just some text book knowledge :) My bad > > survives because of the `inconvenience ` of change? > > > > It works really well, so why fix it ? :) Thanks > Girish is developing a Spam protection product. Spam is practically cancer for the email system. Can't this be sorted out at a lower level instead of having supervisory systems around it? I know nothing of email internals. Consider this as a newbie question. Regards, Arun _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
