Hi Jean-Pierre! >to a pre-trash forder where I used to destroy them all with >their enclosure with a script named "Trash messages and attachments". Now >the question is: If I simply shut-down Emailer, (which empties the >trash), what happents to all the spam files such as the .PIF, .HTM and so >forth. Do they remain in the "downloads" folder (which contains today 14 >996 files) or are they also trashed? > >If they are not, what should I do to trash them also?
No, they remain wherever you have directed them to go. I have two folders that I keep on my harddrive - one called Attachments, which stores email attachments and one called Downloads, which stores browser downloads. Every day I go through my CE Deleted folder and select those mails that have an attachment, indicated by the little paper clip. Then I run Trash messages and attachments on the selected mail. (If there are too many it sometimes causes a hang or crash, so I usually do it in batches of 3...)Then I manually delete the contents of the folder once I have checked for desirable items. Then, every now and then I clear out the Attachments folder too - it usually contains attachments from people in my address book, but if there is a suspicious looking .gif, I make sure not to open it but delete it directly in case it is part of one of those fishing mails looking to see which addresses are live. Not sure if there is an more efficient way of dealing with it all - my ISP gets alot of it but there is more and more every day! Tannis ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
