On Thu 1 July 2004, 0:35:26 +1000, Spike wrote: > I am running into a problem with messages posted by AOHellr's & > Netscape mail (so far). The attachments are posted 'inline' and with > a filename of part-0123456.tmp. The files are actually *.jpg files, > which I normally have extracted to a specific folder (for each group > or list I am a member of). The problem is, I need a way to have TB! > AUTOMATICALLY extract these files to said folder(s) and CHANGE the > filename to an extension of .jpg. No matter what I have tried, TB! > will NOT _recognize_ and extract these files automatically!
I assume that you store attachments in the message bodies not in a separate file. If the file has the name "part-0123456.tmp" in the email, TB! won't recognise it as a JPEG even if that is noted within the email like this: > ------------A94C3E2EE16FAA > Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="part-0123456.tmp" > Content-transfer-encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="part-0123456.tmp" Strictly speaking, that is not a bug, but it would certainly be a desirable feature to have TB! read the "Content-Type" header and display graphics files accordingly. > Is there a solution or workaround?? If I can have TB! just SAVE these > files, I can invoke an external renaming batch file to handle the file > extension change. The problem is I have been UNABLE to have TB! save > these attached files automatically. The best approach I can think of would be to create a filter to save the attachments to a particular directory. This could be a manual one, activated by a hotkey, or it could automatically act on all messages from relevant mailing lists. You could add this as an action to the filters that already act on these messages perhaps? > I realize this is not actually a TB! problem. I think TB! could do a better job of recognising the type of attachment than it does. That would certainly help since then you would see a separate tab in the email, and you could view the JPEG file in that. -- Robin Anson Using The Bat! v2.11.02 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.11.02 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
