Listmembers, At work I use TB! so help me get through the huge amount of mails that comes in on the 'postmaster' account, simply because the filters are the most powerful and allow me to sort most mail out so that there's only a few left that I need to take a look at myself.
Some of my users have the bad habit of setting a rule in their mailboxes (for all other purposes GroupWise is used as the company mail system) to forward all incoming mail to their Hotmail or other freemail mailboxes. Regularly, this means that they try to send a mail with the 10MB new quarterly report powerpoint presentation to these freemail addresses, which of course bounce because they don't allow messages of that magnitude. Consistently these bounces, which include the original message copied into them below the error message, appear in The Bat! as an empty message with a single attachment called message.txt. This forces me to doubleclick the file (holding my shift-key) to open it in my editor before I can establish who the culprit is (we keep tabs on it so we can warn users who regularly cause these bounces as it is inefficient use of the Internet bandwidth we have). However, if I press F9 on the message, the source viewer shows no evidence whatsoever that the incoming mail actually has an attachment. It seems therefore, that when the text-part of a message exceeds a certain size, The Bat! decides to turn it into an attachment. First of all I just considered this a minor nuisance, but since TB! doesn't clean the \TEMP\BAT directory until it's closed, this thing quickly starts to fill up with temporary textfiles as a result of opening the 'message.txt' files, especially if you have about 40 of them each weighing 15MB. I also noticed however, that these messages seem to be excluded from filters that are set to scan the body text of the message for the occurrence of something. This is used by my filters to identify the mails of people who repeatedly cause mail to bounce and where the only identification is in the address the message was originally sent to, which is then part of the errormessage of the mailserver that refused the message. So, the big question is: what is the threshold for this behaviour of turning message-text into an attachment, and is there any way to turn this off (and hopefully restore filtering of these messages as well)? -- With kind regards, Maurice Snellen Using The Bat! v1.60c on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60c FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
