[Nottingham] Silly big attachments in ownCloud *Calendars*

Jason Irwin jasonirwin73 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 23:07:19 UTC 2014


On 26 November 2014 at 21:04, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> Good ingenious thought but is that not going to limit all/any big docs?
>
Don't send them. Important docs should be created in the document
repository and then only links to them sent within emails.
This assumes that all recipients are in-company.

Unless something clever could be done such as subverting the attachments
> to instead become https links... :-)
>
Is that something that could be applied to emails also...? ;-)
>
Yes, that could work. A plug-in could upload to an "attachments" area and
then swap the actual attachment for a link.
Upload time could be an issue, so probably need to be done out-of-process;
with errors pinged to the user and an email maybe?
The other trick would be calculating the security to apply. Easiest would
be to just make them visible to all authenticated users, but people may not
like that (confidential docs etc).
Of course, if the docs are confidential why are they going by email in the
first damned place?
If you can relate the email address to an ownCloud user, you might be able
to set specific permissions.
This assumes all this is possible via the ownCloud API, I've not had cause
to look.
You could always use a FTP server as well, but the issues of security and
UI delay remain.

This seems like such an obvious problem that someone must have done it
already.

Yours in useless waffle,

J.
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