[exim] chunking

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Autor: Lena
Datum:  
To: exim-users
Betreff: [exim] chunking
> From: Ivo Truxa

> I can reliably reproduce the DKIM failure - it is enough
> to send an email from Gmail with the body size
> (may include an attachment) bigger than 65536 bytes
> (the size of an unsigned short integer).


Gmail's incoming MX advertises CHUNKING but doesn't advertise BINARYMIME.
What you noticed means that if a recipient's MX does the same
then Gmail's outgoing MTA sends ordinary messages (without BINARYMIME)
in 64K chunks. What for???

After reading
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1830
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3030
I got a paranoidal suspicion that CHUNKING is a NSA plot
to create predictable data (BDAT commands) at predictable places
(every 64K) in order to be able to decrypt sniffed STARTTLS transmissions.

I very much doubt that Exim will ever support automatic
conversion of usual messages with base64-encoded attachments
to BINARYMIME or back. Right?
If so, what's the sense to support CHUNKING?