Re: Trashing unwanted attachments

[Andy Fragen]

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Patrick,

I've written a script that does just that and a bit more. It will remove
any named attachment and if you keep Spam to a folder to train SpamSieve
it will remove graphics (.gif, .jpg, etc) from your attachment. I can't
remember if I've sent it in to Wayne for the archive. It's called "Remove
Listed Attachments". If it's not there let me know and I'll send it along.

-- 
Andy Fragen
TiBook 400/384 RAM - OS X 10.2.6 - PowerMail v4.2b8
PowerMail AppleScript Archives: http://homepage.mac.com/wayneb/powermail.html

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003, Patrick Blum said:

>
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to find a way to have emails with a specific type of
>attachment - in this case the ".pif" and ".src" attachments sent with
>emails from virus infected PCs - go directly to the trash when I receive
>them. 
>
>A filter and/or script seems the answer, but I can't work out how to make
>one that would recognise a particular type of attachment (as opposed to a
>sender's name, an address or some content, etc).
>
>I've been receiving over 100 of these emails a day through work and while
>they don't harm my Mac, they are a nuisance. Any ideas welcome :-)
>
>I'm using Powermail 4.1.3 on a G4 running OS X 10.2.6.
>
>Patrick
>
>
>

Re: Slow drawing of message lists

[Derry Thompson]

Dan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 30/8/03 6:51 pm

>PowerMail takes a long time to draw a list of email messages.  For
>instance, when I switch to a folder that shows about 40 email messages,
>it takes roughly one second to draw it.  Are there any plans to speed it
>up?  Is there anything I can do to speed it up?  I've tried displaying
>only a minimal set of columns, which helped a little

I have folders with several thousands of messages in then, they draw
instantly. The only time I see any noticible slow down is when I'm using
the video part of iChat.

G4 500Mhz Powerbook, 10.2.6. 

Have you tired compacting your database? 

--
Derry Thompson
g l o d e r w o r k s | Design - Hosting - Programming 

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ 44 (0) 7976 802487

Re: Trashing unwanted attachments

[Marlyse Comte]

there is already an apple script for doing so, you just add the type of
attachments you want trashed. it is called "sweep attachments" and can be
gotten of the pm apple script depository (see power mails site or power
mails faq via help/menubar for the link)

---marlyse

-former message(s) quotes:-
>I'm trying to find a way to have emails with a specific type of
>attachment - in this case the ".pif" and ".src" attachments sent with
>emails from virus infected PCs - go directly to the trash when I receive
>them. 
>
>A filter and/or script seems the answer, but I can't work out how to make
>one that would recognise a particular type of attachment (as opposed to a
>sender's name, an address or some content, etc).
>
>I've been receiving over 100 of these emails a day through work and while
>they don't harm my Mac, they are a nuisance. Any ideas welcome :-)

Trashing unwanted attachments

[Patrick Blum]

Hi,

I'm trying to find a way to have emails with a specific type of
attachment - in this case the ".pif" and ".src" attachments sent with
emails from virus infected PCs - go directly to the trash when I receive
them. 

A filter and/or script seems the answer, but I can't work out how to make
one that would recognise a particular type of attachment (as opposed to a
sender's name, an address or some content, etc).

I've been receiving over 100 of these emails a day through work and while
they don't harm my Mac, they are a nuisance. Any ideas welcome :-)

I'm using Powermail 4.1.3 on a G4 running OS X 10.2.6.

Patrick

Re: powermail-discuss Digest Slow Redraw

[Dan Webb]

 Original message 
Ira Lansing, 11:18 AM, 8/30/03:

>>Subject: Slow drawing of message lists
>>From: "Dan Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 10:51:00 -0700
>>
>>PowerMail takes a long time to draw a list of email messages.  For
>>instance, when I switch to a folder that shows about 40 email messages,
>>it takes roughly one second to draw it.  Are there any plans to speed it
>>up?  Is there anything I can do to speed it up?  I've tried displaying
>>only a minimal set of columns, which helped a little.
>
>You don't say which version of PM and OS you using, but on OS 10.2.3 and
>the non-beta version of PM 4.1.3 a folder of mine with 251 messages and 5
>columns appears instantly.  I suspect the problem is outside of PM.

Instantly, really??  What kind of Mac are you using?

I'm using OS X 10.2.6, PM 4.2b8, on a Powerbook G4 550MHz.  I've used PM
for a couple of years, and it has always been very slow to draw.

Dan

-- 
Dan Webb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powermail-discuss Digest Slow Redraw

[Ira Lansing]

>Subject: Slow drawing of message lists
>From: "Dan Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 10:51:00 -0700
>
>PowerMail takes a long time to draw a list of email messages.  For
>instance, when I switch to a folder that shows about 40 email messages,
>it takes roughly one second to draw it.  Are there any plans to speed it
>up?  Is there anything I can do to speed it up?  I've tried displaying
>only a minimal set of columns, which helped a little.

You don't say which version of PM and OS you using, but on OS 10.2.3 and
the non-beta version of PM 4.1.3 a folder of mine with 251 messages and 5
columns appears instantly.  I suspect the problem is outside of PM.

--Ira

Slow drawing of message lists

[Dan Webb]

PowerMail takes a long time to draw a list of email messages.  For
instance, when I switch to a folder that shows about 40 email messages,
it takes roughly one second to draw it.  Are there any plans to speed it
up?  Is there anything I can do to speed it up?  I've tried displaying
only a minimal set of columns, which helped a little.

--
Dan Webb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then
you win."  - Gandhi

Re: PM4 & OS X Address Book

[Andy Fragen]

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It does. Make sure that your Prefs are set correctly, especially the
synchonization.

-- 
Andy Fragen

On Sat, Aug 30, 2003, Cubeistan said:

>
>Isn't PM 4 supposed to be able to auto-complete addressees in new
>messages from addresses in OS X's Address Book, or am I sadly mistaken?
>
>

PM4 & OS X Address Book

[Cubeistan]

Isn't PM 4 supposed to be able to auto-complete addressees in new
messages from addresses in OS X's Address Book, or am I sadly mistaken?

[ANN] PowerMail 4.2b8/fin. candidate 4 now available

[PowerMail info]

Greetings,

We are hereby pleased to announce the availability of PowerMail 4.2 beta
8/final candidate 4, which can be directly downloaded from:
 
=

=

This release is NOT public; it is exclusively aimed at members of the
PowerMail-discuss and PowerMail-testing lists, as well as to folks who
kindly tested b1 and reported items that we may have fixed below:

--
What's new in the PowerMail 4.2b8/final candidate 4 (from version 4.2b6)
--
- The preferences for indexing are now functional, and we ask that you
test PowerMail with indexing DISABLED as well as enabled. (The ability to
disable indexing is especially useful in tight memory conditions on Mac
OS 9-8)
- Updated the command-key shortcuts for mark read/unread and show simple
header; this way, Mac OS X's Hide Others command key now works again in
PowerMail
- Added a command-key shortcut for view unread
- Fixed a memory allocation problem as well as another leak in a search buffer
- Fixed Mac OS 8.6 compatibility for good - there was a crash when
displaying search results
- PowerMail no longer imports contacts from the Apple address book which
contain no e-mail addresses
- Increased the default memory allocation under Mac OS 9-8
- PowerMail no longer requires Mac OS X spell-checking to be fully
initialized and therefore can be auto-launched on startup by Mac OS X
login items
- If a database was used by a prior beta version, we recalculate message
count for folders on first use in order to ensure that prior negative
values are cleared.

Known limitations:
 This release is not packaged as a disk image but simply as a Stuffit archive
- Command-F should select the search field (when the search window was
already opened in background)
- The final version will also have other localized languages

* * * * * * * 

Please discuss your findings either:
- on the PowerMail discussion list
- using the "Send a message to PowerMail support" option in the Help menu
of registered versions
- if needed, by private post to us at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Possible crash logs - with a description of the situations that might
have lead to them, are also of interest.

Thanks in advance, and kind regards,

The PowerMail development team

Re(2): anti spam service

[Pat O'Halloran]

>
>At times there have been some roars in this groups when somebody has used
>one of those anti spam services where a mail bounces back to the sender
>who has to confirm he is a person of flesh and blood. 
>
>Now I'm up in more than a 100 spams a day on some accounts, and I'm
>feeling desperate enough to try this concept out. But I can't find any
>URL/name to such a service. Does anybody know of one? I promise I won't
>use it for the address I'll use in this list...   ;-)
>
>Max G
>

There is a product called SpamSlam that operates from your own computer,
it acts as a server and sends out an email requesting confirmation for
all addresses not on its white list. I beta tested it for a while and it
seemed fine but I decided against it because of the inconvenience factor.

www.ilesa.com

-- 
Pat O'Halloran
Pat's Place http://www.danu.co.uk 
Northern Earth Online http://www.northernearth.co.uk

Mail Trash bug

[Geoff Roynon]

I have recently started using PM 4.2B3 and have found a bug with the Mail
Trash handling. I have the option set to empty the trash when I quit
PowerMail. However this leads to an invalid item count in the Mail Trash
folder. For instance, if I have 10 items in the trash folder when I quit,
the next time I start PM the trash is empty (as expected) but the item
count is still 10.

If I empty the trash using the PowerMail menu command it clears the items
count correctly.

This is a minor problem.

Geoff

-- 
Using PowerMail 4.2B3FC on a G4/450, 512 MB RAM, under MacOSX 10.2.6
(Classic 9.2.1)

Re: .b64 attachments?

[Marcus Jarrett]

On Friday, 29 August 2003, Jo Dorais, [EMAIL PROTECTED], thoughtfully
composed the following:

>In the past 2-3 weeks, I've been getting the occasional attachment with
>an extra '.b64' extension thrown on. Like 'filename.doc.b64' or
>'filename.bmp.b64' --I can't open these. Well, ok, I can open them with a
>text editor but they're just miles of garbage text. I'm assuming that b64
>would be the same as base64, which I would expect PowerMail to be able to
>decode, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Is anyone else having this
>trouble? the people sending me these files have no idea why they're
>coming through like this. They aren't specifically doing anything to them
>(however, they also are not big techno-types, so perhaps they did
>something accidentally). I sent one of the files to a PC user friend who
>IS fairly technically oriented and she couldn't open it either.
>
>Hints?? 

Have you tried dropping the file on Stuffit Expander?

HTH,

Marcus
-- 
Marcus Jarrett
Adelaide, South Australia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: anti spam service

[Kjell Olausson]

Max Gossell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At times there have been some roars in this groups when somebody has used
> one of those anti spam services where a mail bounces back to the sender
> who has to confirm he is a person of flesh and blood.
>
> Now I'm up in more than a 100 spams a day on some accounts, and I'm
> feeling desperate enough to try this concept out. But I can't find any
> URL/name to such a service. Does anybody know of one? I promise I won't
> use it for the address I'll use in this list...   ;-)

My web hotel has SpamAssassin installed and all mail to my domain
 goes thru that spam filter and it's working great. Check if your
ISP or web hotel has this service.

--
Regards, Kjell O
Alingsås, Sweden

Windows Daymares, Why Macs Are Better & Switching to Mac!

Re: .b64 attachments?

[Barbara Needham]

Jo Dorais on 8/29/03 said

>In the past 2-3 weeks, I've been getting the occasional attachment with
>an extra '.b64' extension thrown on. Like 'filename.doc.b64' or
>'filename.bmp.b64' --I can't open these. Well, ok, I can open them with a
>text editor but they're just miles of garbage text. I'm assuming that b64
>would be the same as base64, which I would expect PowerMail to be able to
>decode, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Is anyone else having this
>trouble? the people sending me these files have no idea why they're
>coming through like this. They aren't specifically doing anything to them
>(however, they also are not big techno-types, so perhaps they did
>something accidentally). I sent one of the files to a PC user friend who
>IS fairly technically oriented and she couldn't open it either.

What happens if you delete the .b64 and just try to open a .doc file?
Are they coming from windows users?
Do you know from the sender what the attachment is supposed to be?
If you don't need formatting you could have them send as text, either
saving as text, or cut and paste in the e-mail as text.
Do you  have Word?
Has your PC user friend tried to open the attachments using WinZip? It
opens almost everything. 
Can you access your mail at a web site and see what the attachment looks
like there?
Can your friends print out what they want to send you and snail mail it?


-- 
Barbara Needham

Re: anti spam service

[jetflyer]

EARTHLINK.NET

Works great. Lasts a long time.

I have an address book  around 1650 addresses plus all the stock
notices, Apple.com newsletters, JCPEnney, Ebaby, etc

I told them all to pardon my spam blocker message. I have them added to
my online address book once they email me.  

I'm still logging on to the WEB MAIL part of Earthlink in order to clear
some messages, but after two months, the spam is no big deal, and no
spam in the inbox.

BTW, The Powermail Forum (and Adobe's Go Live forum)  comes through just fine.

See you,
Steve 
---Original Message---
From: Max Gossell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 08/29/03 04:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: anti spam service 

> 
> Hi,

At times there have been some roars in this groups when somebody has used
one of those anti spam services where a mail bounces back to the sender
who has to confirm he is a person of flesh and blood. 

Now I'm up in more than a 100 spams a day on some accounts, and I'm
feeling desperate enough to try this concept out. But I can't find any
URL/name to such a service. Does anybody know of one? I promise I won't
use it for the address I'll use in this list...   ;-)

Max G

> 

See you,
Steve Mayer
Austin, TX

.b64 attachments?

[Jo Dorais]

In the past 2-3 weeks, I've been getting the occasional attachment with
an extra '.b64' extension thrown on. Like 'filename.doc.b64' or
'filename.bmp.b64' --I can't open these. Well, ok, I can open them with a
text editor but they're just miles of garbage text. I'm assuming that b64
would be the same as base64, which I would expect PowerMail to be able to
decode, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Is anyone else having this
trouble? the people sending me these files have no idea why they're
coming through like this. They aren't specifically doing anything to them
(however, they also are not big techno-types, so perhaps they did
something accidentally). I sent one of the files to a PC user friend who
IS fairly technically oriented and she couldn't open it either.

Hints?? 

 
Jo
_____   _
Normal is just a setting on a washing machine

anti spam service

[Max Gossell]

Hi,

At times there have been some roars in this groups when somebody has used
one of those anti spam services where a mail bounces back to the sender
who has to confirm he is a person of flesh and blood. 

Now I'm up in more than a 100 spams a day on some accounts, and I'm
feeling desperate enough to try this concept out. But I can't find any
URL/name to such a service. Does anybody know of one? I promise I won't
use it for the address I'll use in this list...   ;-)

Max G