smtp

[jean-christophe helary]

ravi:
> adopt. email file transfer is a problem not because of SMTP (HTTP or FTP
> or SCP are built on TCP which provides the same guaranteed delivery
> mechanism at the transport layer), but because people mail out large
> files to each other. that said, it is still easier to drag and drop a
> file to your mail and send it as an attachment, than to sign up for some
> web space somewhere, upload the file there and then email out pointers.

i suspect it would not be hard in the world of isp to have modern mail programs upload the attachement to web space, copy the location in the body of the mail and delete the attachement once downloaded. or even (semi)-automatically download the attachement when the mail is checked. etc.

jc helary