Hello Jonathan, On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:31:55 -0600 GMT (18/01/03, 00:31 +0700 GMT), Jonathan Angliss wrote:
>> It is technically possible to filter on that, very much like an HTML >> attachment is now shown as such in the attachment pane. Currently it >> is not possible to filter on attachment extensions, but I believe it >> is in the wishlist. > I'm confused... are you saying you can filter on an attachment header? Technically, yes. > If so, I'd *love* to know how. It has been tried before... at least in > 1.62 and didn't work here, No, it doesn't work in TB yet. That's why it is a wishlist item. >>> and you cannot filter inside that part. >> ...but I would appreciate it if they implemented this feature. > Yes... it would be good... providing you allow for filtering inside > the attachment headers if the content-type is not text/* Yep. ;-) > otherwise you'll probably start matching things in the attachment > body for words like sex. What's wrong with sex? ;-) > If the content-type is text/* then allow the filtering > inside the attachment body too. Yep. ;-) > Plus you also have to take into account that the attachment must be > encoded in 7bit or 8bit, or provide a base64 decoder as part of the > filtering, and to be honest, that is going to slow the filtering > down a *lot* when it comes to bit emails. You say that it will slow the system down. I say that *if* you want to use such a filter, you will have to accept a slow-down of a few nano-seconds. If you don't want that, don't use such a filter. ;-) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Der erste Tag am FKK-Strand kann fuer einen jungen Mann sehr hart werden. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.63 Beta/3 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
