Received from: Bob Seaner At: 8:20 pm (GMT) on Tue, Mar 18, 2003 >If I move my users over to PowerMail, it will take no time >at all for them to have attachments numbering in the thousands. And >since filed messages are an ever increasing quantity, (for all practical >purposes, I don't live in an ideal world) the number of attachments >landing in that one directory is open-ended. This makes browsing for an >attachment considerably more problematic.
I, for one, would like to be able to specify more than one attachment folder. The obvious place to involve separate attachment folders would be in the Filters; we've got a filter action for moving attachments to the Finder Trash, could we not have one that moves attachments to a folder of our choosing? That way I could file attachments in folders according to sender (or any other criteria detectable by the Filters). If that sender's specified attachment folder is deleted (in the finder) then the filter could simply revert to the default Attachments folder as specified in Preferences. Actually, I'd like Filters to include more options for dealing with attachments -- something that they more or less ignore. As well as the above filter action (File in...), I'd like a bunch of attachment based filter conditions: a couple that spring to mind are: 1. If message has attachment... 2. If attachment name is/starts with/ends with, et al... (useful for putting all jpegs into one folder, all .doc files into another, etc. I suppose that the above could be done using the Other field filter conditions, but for that one needs an understanding of email servers and headers that I don't have and, I suspect, nor do many other people. Filter conditions/actions explicitly devoted to attachments would make things much easier. Oh, and one more thing: I've said it many many times before and I'll keep on saying it: There really needs to be a third checkbox on every filter alongside the "Apply to incoming" and "Apply to outgoing" ones that makes the filter apply to the message BEFORE it is sent, not after. Rick ----------- G4/500 MHz (DP) :: OS 10.2.4 :: PM 4.1.2 :: 3 pane mode :: 768 MB RAM <www.sharkattack.co.uk>
