Do not send attachments not working
I have a sorting filter set up for an account that sends a message to my cell phone if I'm away from my desk (screen saver is active). This is a great filter that has allowed me to cancel one of my mobile services for notifications. But there seems to be a quirk with the filter. I use ATT Wireless, and this makes my filter somewhat easy to set up. With ATT, you can send a message as long as you want, but only the first 155 characters or so will show up. This is usually sufficient if I'm waiting on an important message and am away from my desk. Besides, I can then connect (GSM) and receive the entire e-mail if necessary. Note that this initial notification is treated as a text message (and receiving text msgs are free). So all I have to do is redirect the message to get this to work. The message is truncated automatically (though I hope to get around to making the filter process the message better and not send extraneous data). Here is the problem: In the Actions tab of the filter, I have checked Redirect the message to: and filled in my mobile phone number. Underneath that is a checkbox stating Do not send attachments I have this checked, but according to my Outbox, attachments are getting redirected anyway. I just verified this by copying the filter and modifying some things. I sent a message with an attached JPEG, and the filter redirected the message as instructed - but IGNORED the Do not send attachments setting and the attachment arrived in my Inbox from the redirect. Is this a known bug? -- Ken Green Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Do not send attachments not working
Hi The_Bat! Users, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, 11:49:21 AM, you wrote: kg I have a sorting filter set up for an account that sends a message to my kg cell phone if I'm away from my desk (screen saver is active). This is a kg great filter that has allowed me to cancel one of my mobile services for kg notifications. Are you serious... you can really create a filter to call a phone number when a new message arrives? Tell me more! -- Regards, John My Public PGP Key Can Be Found Here http://legacy.sheltonbbs.com/~jmmorse/pgp.html Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Do not send attachments not working
Are you serious... you can really create a filter to call a phone number when a new message arrives? Tell me more! Most likely it's a filter that sends an email out to a phone. There are several such services around. You send an email to an address and that gets translated to a text (SMS) message to one's phone. -- Ravi (http://shell-shocked.org) Running The Bat! 2.01.3 on Windows XP Charlie was a Chemist, but Charlie is no more. What Charlie thought was H20 was H2SO4. Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Do not send attachments not working
John Morse wrote: Are you serious... you can really create a filter to call a phone number when a new message arrives? Tell me more! :) Yeah, it's pretty cool. And simple too! Note that I am utilizing text messaging service provided by my wireless carrier (mine is ATT Wireless). I can send an e-mail to: my wireless number@mobile.att.net and the message will go to my phone as a text message. This varies from provider to provider - ATT charges for *sending* text messages, but doesn't charge for *receiving* them, so this suits me especially well. Also, the way that ATT handles text messages is well-suited to my ham-fisted approach. I think other providers may balk at large messages or messages with attachments. But this could be addressed in the filter within TB. So for me, it's a simple filter that redirects all mail sent to my business account to my wireless number@mobile.att.net - a redirect send a copy, by the way, so the message still goes to my Inbox. I set this filter to be active only when the screen saver is on (great flexibility of the bat!) and this has worked beautifully for some time now. The only problem is as I described - that is the Don't send attachments option does not appear to work. If this is truly a bug, then it may prevent some people from using a filter like this - I seem to recall some of the other wireless providers do balk at attachments being sent as a text message. Anyway, this filter alone has created a number of oohs and ahhs from business associates (which helps combat the effect of my boorish personality). I do also subscribe to a data plan with ATT GPRS/GSM service so that I can log on with my phone and get the entire e-mail if necessary (or with my Palm Tungsten) --- geek alert! To be honest, I would say that upwards of 75-80% of the time, just getting the text message is enough, which gives me the first 155 characters of a message. Of course, this does bring up the whole top posting/bottom posting issue If someone bottom posts (who in the world would do *that*?!) then you will still get notified they sent you a response, but you won't be able read the message. -- Ken Green Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
Re: Do not send attachments not working
Hello ken, On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:27:41 -0500 GMT (22/10/2003, 04:27 +0700 GMT), ken green wrote: :) Yeah, it's pretty cool. And simple too! Note that I am utilizing text messaging service provided by my wireless carrier (mine is ATT Wireless). I can send an e-mail to: my wireless number@mobile.att.net and the message will go to my phone as a text message. I had an email-address for my cell phone for a while, but Svetlana from Russia kept sending me her love at 3am - especially when I was travelling abroad, so I had to pay the internationla roaming fee in addition to having been woken up. :-( No more email to my cell phone! I set this filter to be active only when the screen saver is on (great flexibility of the bat!) and this has worked beautifully for some time now. The only problem is as I described - that is the Don't send attachments option does not appear to work. If this is truly a bug, then it may prevent some people from using a filter like this This has actually nothing to do with whether you redirect to a cell phone or any other email account - I shall run some tests later today. Of course, this does bring up the whole top posting/bottom posting issue If someone bottom posts (who in the world would do *that*?!) then you will still get notified they sent you a response, but you won't be able read the message. As was said before, different environments call for different behaviours... ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Things You Would Never Know Without the Movies: When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.01.3 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM Current version is 2.01.3 | Using TBUDL information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
