[imp] Attachment sizes and linked attachments

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> I just noticed that the attachment size limits are applied no matter
> if the attachments are sent with the message or as linked attachments.
> The rationale behind linked attachments was to avoid sending large
> files with the SMTP protocol which was not designed as a file transfer
> protocol.
> Now, wouldn't it make sense to not use the same limits, or maybe even
> not use any limits at all, if you send files as linked attachments?
> Utilizing the linked attachments for very easy file distribution is a
> nice use case, and one of my clients actually does this. You don't
> have to set a up a separate file server and you keep your users from
> sending huge attachments around. For this scenario the size limits for
> linked and inline attachments should be de-coupled.
> Thoughts?

I agree with having a separate file size limit for linked attachments.

-chuck