Re: [exim] Exim misses some attachments.

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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim misses some attachments.
On 17/12/15 16:09, Always Learning wrote:
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> On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 16:01 +0000, Jeremy Harris wrote:
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>> Should we go further for the upcoming 4.87 and remove support for
>> demime? The makefile WITH_OLD_DEMIME has been present commented *out*
>> since December 2004. Any builders including it are doing it
>> deliberately.... but leaving it dangling for over ten years seems a bit
>> foolish.
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> Why remove something extremely useful and easy to use ? Why make things
> more complicated ?


Because it is duplicate functionality with acl_smtp_mime and removing
it reduces complexity for the implementation code and for the
maintainers, meaning fewer bugs and better support (we hope), and
a smaller binary (lower costs for packagers and users).
--
Jeremy