Michael Collette wrote: > If the user has moved the attachment from the default location,
Not the attachment, but the mail. Move it into a subfolder and your link breaks. Sure, you can re-adjust the link, but that's exactly the complications (and consequent fragility) Jorey talked about. > the user is left with > a mail box that WILL be wiped clean if they recieve the BadTrans virus > and > are using the single most popular AV package out there. ... *and* didn't change its settings to more sane values. > Have you ever needed to extract a couple of hundred attachments from a > variety of E-mails? > [...] > For a user such as myself, I'm constantly forced into deleting E-Mail > that > I would otherwise archive due to a large attachment being a part of it. You are mixing topics. We don't oppose separating the attachments on *user request*. > I haven't changed a single setting in his AV software since I > converted him > over. Obviously, you should have. This would probably have prevented all this in the first place. > I have proposed one possible solution for this which in practice I've > seen > work quite well on a very popular E-Mail client. This proposal is > standards compliant, reasonably portable, and the code to make it happen > must already exist, though out of order, in the Mozilla source today. We > can also be reasonably certain that any unknown AV apps out there won't > interact negatively with it. Which code are you talking about?
