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Re: [bug-mailutils] Problem with large file support in mailutils 1.0
From: |
Kostas Zorbadelos |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-mailutils] Problem with large file support in mailutils 1.0 |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:11:14 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.11 |
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:33:38AM -0600, D. E. Evans wrote:
> > There is a problem with large file support (>2GB) in mailutils
> > 1.0. Although mu_off_t type was introduced, the function fseek()
>
> Do you really want support for 2GB email transfers? That seems
> absurd. Files of that size should be transferred using FTP, or other
> file sharing protocol, not email MIME. Do any of the email/MIME RFCs
> have file size limits? If not, perhaps fseeko() can be a configure
> option for SysV systems.
>
Apart from mail transfers, there is also mail delivery to user
mailboxes. And mailboxes can be large.
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Kostas Zorbadelos
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