Forgive this interruption in the flow of discussion about Richtext, but
I have a question that relates to MIT's possible adoption of RFC MIME
compatibility.
I am interested in carrying on private discussion with qualified parties
to see how we can deal with the following issue:
There is a risk that by adding MIME compatibility that our current mail
infra-structure will suddenly become overloaded with larger multi-media
mail and more messages from many people trying it out. (For example,
people may discover how easy it is to send multi-megabyte GIF files
through post office servers used to only seeing that much stuff in a
whole day.)
The people who designed our mail hub and post office servers want to
store and forward MIME mail in a separate queue so that it doesn't
interfere with our day-to-day-business mail. Once we get experience
with the real usage we could merge the queues back into one.
Is there anyone out there who is interested in working on modified
sendmail and pop to enable this separate queueing? If I have to do it
myself, it won't get done (I don't have the experience, or the
permission to spend time away from my other duties.), and MIT will
proably not offer MIME compatible mail.
Thanks in advance,
-Bill Cattey
MIT Information Systems