On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:34:26 -0400, Ken Hornstein said: > As discussed here: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2019-02/msg00035.html > > Currently our message/partial support does not work. I believe fixing > it is straightforward, but given the links that David posted in that > thread and my own research, almost no other MUAs support it and it is > probably blocked by most mail providers due to concerns about viruses > and spam. Can anyone think of a reason to keep it? I suggest removing > all support for it, on both sender and receiver sides.
I can't remember if I followed up or not, but over on the ietf-822 list there were 3 or 4 products mentioned that had code but shipped with the ability configured disabled. Gnus seems to be the largest user base that would potentially handle a message/partial either incoming or outbound. This implies "It's only of use if you already know a priori that your recipient is running an uncommon mail stack". (Further research shows that I was probably incorrect in saying that exmh can't handle reassembling a message/partial - further looking at the code indicates that if 'mhstore' is able to deal with the message fragments not being in order, it should work, but I haven't tested it. There's zero support for passing -split to 'send'. -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
