On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:02:44, blag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've always been a fan of the way Eudora dumps attachments into a > user-specified directory - it allows mailboxes (containing only the text > of messages) to be easily backed up. The mailboxes are necessarily > small in size (and compress well too) because they don't have all the > encoded jpegs/mpegs/powerpoint/M$Word/etc/etc embedded within them.
I agree with you that this can be a good feature, but there is one thing I don't like about the way Eudora does this. If I receive several messages with attachments with the same name, Eudora will start renaming the attachments by appending a number. This is also reflected in the message text so that it is actually impossible to know 100% sure what the name of the file actually was, and Eudora gives no warning that it has renamed the attachment. When sending for instance application updates (with cryptic names) this can be awkward and difficult to spot, and is easily misunderstood by the recipient. There is of course all kinds of ways to circumvent this, including zipping the attachment, but this is a problem only with Eudora (I think), so most people don't know about it. I hope this can be handled better in Mozilla if it too gets this feature. kind regards, Jan -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jan Eri ~~ Protector AS ~~ Norway Work: http://www.protector-group.no/ Priv: http://janeri.com/
