I just read a mail where you said about [netconnect] Re: An MD-II Idea.:
> > How about the Mail Download Manager having the ability to list
> > attachments. Then I could delete the junk and download the rest.
> > Of course, the ability to download only some of the attachments of one
> > message would be a bonus.
> There simply is no such thing as an attachment in email the way it is
> done in Fidonet. The so-called attachments in email are encoded and
> embedded in the email as plain text. There's no way any mail server
> is going to ever read your email to see what it contains, much less
> decode it for you and somehow send you the files it may contain.
Aaaaah! </cress> But there is. I think. If your ISP has decent mail
filters you can set it up to check the body of messages for whatever
text you like.
It'd be a long winded process but you could try something like:
IF FROM = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" AND MSGBODY contains ".exe" AND
SIZE > 1MB THEN delete message.
IF FROM: = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" AND MSGBODY: contains ".exe" AND
SIZE > 1MB THEN delete message.
You wouldn't need the FROM: condition either because any file
containing an .exe and larger than 1MB is pretty likely to be crud,
but only filtering from certain people might help to avoid missing out
on things (like if someone replies to an .exe attached mail and
attaches an .mpg)
I'm pretty sure you can do it with U-Net's mail filtering service but
never got around to trying it because the "and" buttons don't seem to
work properly.
> Patrick Ford
Paul C, BTW your sig looks a real mess in Microdot
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