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Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet

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polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> wrote:
> On 19/08/2014 13:32, Rich wrote:
> > Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> wrote:
> >> polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>> resynchronise email
> >
> >> This must be a Windows thing, because I've never heard of it.
> >
> > So, the first time you connect via outlook to exchange on any
> > workstation, it begins by downloading the entire contents of your
> > exchange folders to a local outlook mail database file.  If one has
> > a large size set of exchange folders (as in, lots of bytes) this
> > process can take some time.  Esp. over a slow net' connection.
> >

> What would make a lot of sense is for an email client to have an
> option to strip out large attachments and make them available by a
> link (whether to Dropbox, ftp, or whatever else).

While that would be possible, for at least internet SMTP email, the
attachments aren't "attached" to the email in the typical english
language meaning of "attach".  They "are" the email.  Any text, and the
"attachments" (having been converted into a text compatible format) are
simply made one big huge email body, and shipped off to the configured
SMTP server for delivery to the recipent.

The "attachments" are only seen as attachments when the MUA interprets
the big giant email body and recognizes that at spot X, there's a text
encoded "attached" file.  I.e., it is really all just in the
presentation.

So one could do such, but one now has to have the server side also
parsing the email bodys looking for the portions that are
"attachments", and modifying things for the purpose of transfer sync. 
That adds server load over simply "transmit this blob".  And it also
means the server has to pay attention to the body, whereas for SMTP,
the servers only need worry about the envelope and can ignore the
contents of the body (they treat it as an opaque collection of bytes).

So possible, but it is something that can't simply be implimented in
the client only.

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Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-15 02:51 +0000
  Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-18 15:08 +0000
    Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-18 20:09 +0000
      Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-18 21:03 +0000
        Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-08-18 22:18 +0100
        Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-18 22:21 +0100
          Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-18 21:57 +0000
          Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-08-19 14:12 +0200
            Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-08-19 13:15 +0100
            Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-19 12:32 +0000
              Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-19 18:59 +0100
                Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-19 20:46 +0000
                Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-19 21:58 +0100
                Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-19 21:10 +0000
                Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-19 22:20 +0100
          Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-08-20 08:40 +0000
            Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-20 20:56 +0100
        Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-08-18 15:34 -0600
        Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-08-20 19:50 +0000
  Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-08-22 07:34 -0700

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