There's another catch though, regarding html alternatives saved as attachments (Enclosed#x.html): Emailer doesn't keep track of the last number, what happens is that each new file takes the next available number in the downloads folder. The consequence is that if you have 4 of them and you trash the 2nd attachment, the next message with html will recreate a #2, which will then appear linked from that new message, but ALSO from the older message that created the original #2. This can be confusing, that's why somebody made a script to rename html enclosures based on the date and time or the title of the message (don't ask for the script, I don't remember more).
and there in lies the rub for us. because we're cheap all around. (a smallish publication, distributed free, with a staff of less than 20, many who are part time or contract) we have some cut-rate ISP and so we get HUNDREDS of spam messages daily per person. most of these Spam messages come in of course in the about Enclosed#x.html format. in that whole mess we lose the legitimate messages that are also sent using HTML coding.
this is something that always really bothered me about Emailer (and Eudora) -- handling of HTML formating and MIME encoding and one reason that I switched on my personal machine at work to something newer, but our publisher is a slower learner and we don't have an IT person, so writing a script is pretty scary territory as well.
what have others done here?
christopher
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