[AusNOG] Straw poll: what is your email message size limit?

Mark Prior mrp at mrp.net
Tue Mar 26 16:52:45 EST 2013


On 26/03/13 2:15 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:
> On 26/03/2013 2:11 PM, Geordie Guy wrote:
>> If only there was some sort of protocol to transfer files.  Even if it were a
>> trivial one. You could even have a secure version.
>
> ...and a passive/reverse version, to ensure it could get through the recipient's
> firewall and NAT? (but possibly not yours)
>
> Seriously, moving the file is the easy bit. Harder is avoiding the need to separately
> notify the recipient that the file has been transferred.
>
> If only there was some sort of protocol that combined transferring the file with some
> form of notification to the intended user that the file has been transferred, and
> where to find it. Ideally bundled up in a Unified Communications app that made the
> notification appear in the users email inb........ oh.
>

Where's ACSnet's sendfile when you need it? :-)

Mark.




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