[Email-SIG] Parsing email with large attachment

[E Vijay Rao]

Hi ,

Yes I would like to propose an API and work on the implementation.
Any pointers on where to get started ?

Vijay


At 07:51 PM 9/4/2007, Barry Warsaw wrote:
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>On Sep 4, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Vijay Rao wrote:
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>>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...
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>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?
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>- -Barry
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