Re: "file:" URLs?

[Albrecht Dreß <albrecht dress arcormail de>]

Toralf,

I see your point that you don't want to send huge files as attachments.
However, I think the solution for your problem is sending a mail with mime
type message/external-body, according to RFC 2046, section 5.2.3 (Agree,
Brian?). Here you can also specify the access method (like local file,
anonymous ftp, tftp). I have no idea if balsa (or libmutt or whatever) does
support this, though.

Am 20.08.2001 13:26:37 schrieb(en) Brian Stafford:
> Remember, internet messaging has different security implications to file
> sharing.

Exactly. And therefore I *really* don't think implementing support for file:
uri's in balsa is a good idea. At least it should be disabled by default (if
possible during configure, as some users tend to deactivate all security...)

Cheers, Albrecht.

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