On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 11:49:18PM +1200, Don Gould wrote:
> Over the last week or so I've been having a bit of a look at mail 
> programs to see if I can find one that is easy to set up tags on the 
> addresses in the address book to tell the program what to do when 
> sending the message.

mutt, and send-hooks. But I don't recommend mutt for you, the learning
curve is very steep.

However, if you want outgoing logic to be separate from the MUA, set up
GNU Anubis -- it's an SMTP proxy that allows arbitrary message
modification.

> I find it interesting that the list doesn't have a simple feature to 
> control attachments.

Well, I guess it could be configured to discard any email that comes
with an attachment. Look in the message headers, see if you can work out
what it is, and ask Zane if the University would be happy to change
settings. If there are any. The University's hosting of this mailing
list is long-standing, and extremely stable. These attributes are far
more important than features like attachment filtering.

I'd rather that we were able to receive attachments because sometimes
they're useful; I'd also rather people didn't send them unless they were
essential.

> Personally I don't care about attachments.

Neither do I -- I'm often using mutt. I can't be bothered to cast random
attachments into 7-bit ASCII to see what they say. If they're
well-explained and really interesting attachments, I'll make the effort
to look at them (actually, to bounce the message to gmail, and let the
browser handle render it!)

-jim

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