[Email-SIG] Parsing email with large attachment

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Sep 4, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Vijay Rao wrote:

> The only way to fix this seems to be rewriting the parser to not load
> the attachment into memory at all and maybe write it to a file , pass
> the file pointer to set_payload and decode the attachment in small
> chunks in get_payload instead of loading the entire file.
> Subclass message to accept a file pointer in set_payload, etc...

We've long talked about adding an API to allow the parser to store  
attachment data externally instead of in memory.  We've never gotten  
past the "yes, that would be a good idea" stage though.  Care to  
propose an API and work on an implementation?

- -Barry

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