Subj : Directly include binary data in messages
To   : Rob Swindell
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Feb 12 2022 07:37 am

On 2022 Feb 11 12:40:24, you wrote to Tim Schattkowsky:

TS>> Admittedly, I still have the idea to make the most out of the 63k
TS>> maximum message length I spuspect for unsplit messages. W.r.t. this,
TS>> the above mechanism actually has the drawback of being incompatible
TS>> with @SPLIT and this limiting the size of an attachment effectively
TS>> to one 63k message.

RS> Is there really a "63k maximum message length" required by some FTSC
RS> standard?

there is not and FTS-0001 even states, in several places, that message bodies are "unbounded"... the limits seen on message bodies have been placed by "lazy coding" and not paging extra data to an overflow disk file during processing...

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