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Email client and web filestorage fusion

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  • Created: Jul 19, 2006, 1:20 pm
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The Idea

As SMTP servers nowadays often choke on or even reject big attachments (and masses don't want to use anything too "difficult" like sftp or friends), a new, easy-to-use email client with integration to online web file sharing services would be needed. Attached files would be uploaded to selected file sharing site and only links would be sent as attachments. Load on SMTP would be lighter and sharing files would still be as easy as with traditional attaching. Non-supporting clients would only see a link, which could easily be opened in browser as well. Maybe a PGP crypting of attachments would also be considered.

I thought of this idea when I was...

I was arguing about how attachments should be published in web with friends who did not know technical backround for how heavy load a single 1MB file sent to 12 recipients would produce.


Comments Posted

mthorn
mthorn Posted: July 30, 2006, 7:50 am

Good idea but it's been done. Plenty of people have used Gmail and it's large storage of 2GB+ to make virtual harddrives that use email as the primary transfer protocol.

horsman
horsman Posted: July 30, 2006, 1:29 pm

mthorn,
Gmail still limits to 10megs per mail or something to that effect. We need to be able to send 100 meg mails and more.

This is a great idea.

warmflatsprite
warmflatsprite Posted: August 1, 2006, 10:36 pm

I wonder if this functionality could be better created as a plugin or plugins to pre-existing mail clients that are already popular. It's been my experience that people tend to have very strong ideas about their mail clients, as they generally have become monolithic personal information management suites.

This/these plugin(s) could be distributed as freeware, and the web file-sharing companies could pay a usage-based subscription fee for being listed as part of the service.

Great idea!

 

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