[pmmail-list] PMMAIL 2.20.2380 file corruption (forwards with attachments)

[John Swartzentruber]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 23:15:47 +0200 (MES), Lueko Willms wrote:

>  Introducing arbitrary filenames forces the mail program to maintain
>a link between the message and the detached attachment's file name,
>so that it can be found again and re-converted back to the file name
>given in the MIME header.

Why is a connection necessary?

>  Yes, it is a very very very bad idea, to put all the attachments of
>thousands of messages into one single directory and break your head
>with all the problems of getting the names unique across these
>thousands of messages. 

I frankly can't imagine anyone with thousands of attachments all open
at the same time. The temporary files would be created only when the
attachment is opened, not when the message itself is received or
opened.