Re: tlug: attachments (was: Next Microsoft product...?)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, A.Tomita wrote:
> 
> >Also, after been "digestified", I don't know if attachments would
> >be correctly decoded by a mail reader. I would hate to have to scroll
> 
> That's a good point.  Attachments usually become junk when run through a
> "composter."
> 
> >BTW, someone mentioned IMAP4. I'm not sure, but I think
> >my provider (AT&T Worldnet) doesn't support this protocol.
> 
> They didn't when I used them, nor do we support it.  I don't know
> any ISPs that do, for a couple of reasons.  First, it would take a lot more
> disk space if a lot of people started using it, and 4 GB Sun disks are
> expensive, and second, it would probably create a support nightmare,
> especially in the early days. 
> 
> We used to have IMAP on the employees' mail server, but a serious security
> flaw was discovered and IMAP was subsequently disabled and we went back to
> POP3.

That's fixed now, AFAIK.

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