On 10 4 2003 at 12:39 am -0400, Barbara Needham wrote: >Just wondering: since if someone sends me, for instance, a picture that >starts out embedded in their email I receive it as an attachment [my >choice]; is there not a way to make it so that uuencoded stuff that gets >embedded in an e-mail can be stripped out or copied so that it is only or >also in an attachment? [Question for PowerMail Engineering, I have NO >IDEA whether or not such a thing is possible.]
When you get "embedded images", they're being encoded as MIME multi-part attachments; they ARE attachments in the normal sense, just referred to in the accompanying HTML. The uuencoding stuff is "just a bunch of encoded stuff thrown into the body of the message", so while it is conceivable that a filter could be devised to extract it automatically, it's not inherently the same as dealing with MIME formatting. Having said this, I bet someone could come up with an Applescript (filter incoming messages) that would do exactly what you both want. (I'm not an AS guy, so not me! :) -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca
