[Dovecot] Attachment extraction, de-duplication

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Fri Aug 14 13:27:13 EEST 2009


On 8/14/2009, Steffen Kaiser (skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de) wrote:
> However, the reactions to this action is quite wide spread. Some are
> glad, because they can download attachments on demand, others hate
> this extra step. Some user think the mail is altered and the
> copyright of the sender is infringed. In a few cases, I ripped some
> pictures from a HTML mail, which caused uproar. Also, the S/Mime and
> PGP signing won't work, if transmitted in a separate MIME part.

Yeah, I toyed with the idea of hiring someone to do something like this
a long time ago, but these types of things prevented me from pulling the
trigger.

I'd much prefer the users to not be able to tell anything different -
the attachment should look just like it does now to them...

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Best regards,

Charles


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