jonathon wrote:
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 00:47, Barbara Duprey wrote:
Surely the mail client can't get away with just discarding attachments, can it?
I've come across a couple of email clients whose default is to
silently discard attachments.
Gmail will either silently discard attachments, or reject the entire
message, if the attachment is one of roughly two dozen extensions.
(The file type is irrelevant. The only thing that counts is the three
or four letter extension of the attachment. )
Some corporate email filters automatically discard _all_ attachments.
jonathon
Interesting. I would expect that most of the unsubs would be in a home
Windows environment, probably using OE or Outlook, but something will
certainly have to cover this aspect (I'd see it as being in the separate
article referenced in the initial response). I guess those corporate
environments who do the auto discard use network file sharing rather
than attachments. If Gmail doesn't discard .ezm files or reject messages
with them attached, that shouldn't be an issue for this approach, but I
don't have Gmail to test. As for the others, can you say anything about
how commonly used they are, and how tech-savvy their users are likely to be?
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