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Re: [Jmap] the large email (attachment) problem

Neil Jenkins <neilj@fastmailteam.com> Mon, 02 August 2021 01:38 UTC

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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2021 11:37:47 +1000
From: Neil Jenkins <neilj@fastmailteam.com>
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Subject: Re: [Jmap] the large email (attachment) problem
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On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, at 03:43, John R Levine wrote:
> I agree there is a bootstrap problem.  Some mail programs implemented it 
> back in the 1990s when people still dialed in to download their mail, then 
> it went away when we all got permanently online, now we need it again as 
> the size of bloatware has pulled away from what mail systems do.

I *think* the bootstrap problem can be solved if most clients support multiple MIME parts correctly (which I think they probably must, because Apple's clients often produce bodies like that). You have something like this:

multipart/mixed
    text/html *(The message body)*
    multipart/alternative
        text/html *(HTML representation of attachments, just like current G Drive etc.)*
        message/external-body *(For external attachment aware clients)*

Neil.

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