Re: PM Attachment support
FWIW, this is actually pretty high on my list. Ron Alan Harper wrote on 10/8/09 at 5:10 PM: Yeah--I have lots of issues with PowerMail--but I continue to use it and love it. Putting attachments into a folder associated with a PowerMail folder is very low on the list, maybe even lowest. But, if CTM wanted to have a questionnaire about what we want to see in PowerMail moving forward I would be happy to participate. A -- Alan Harper a...@alanharper.com 5170 Parkridge Drive Oakland, CA 94619 Portraits of a Seductive Landscape Images of Baja California http://www.alanharper.com Craig Dudley (craig.dud...@sacsi.com) said on 10/8/09: Dear PowerMail Discussion lurkers, It has been five years now since this was proposed. We haven't seen *ANY* indication the PM development team is even acknowledging their attachment support needs some serious improvement. I don't suggest they need to implement improved attachment support as I proposed. But it would be nice if they suggested one or more alternatives. ANyone else want to chime in on this? Do you have a better idea? Please propose it so PM development can see other views and/or frustrations. Thanks -- Craig Dudley Systems Communications Sciences, Inc. 244 Poor Farm Rd. New Ipswich, NH 03071-3922 603-878-1148 Fax 603-925-1978 Hi, I find the way PM handles Attachments frustrating. It is difficult to know which attachments in the Attachments folder are associated with messages in different PM folders. So, since people are asking for new things to be added to PM, I would like to request a feature that will have PM move an attachment, associated with email that is moved to a PM folder, into a Finder folder of the same name in the Attachment folder. For example, if I move a message, with attachment a.pdf attached, from my Inbox to a folder named myfolder, PM would move the attachment a.pdf into a Finder folder (in PM Attachments) named myfolder. If there is already a file named a.pdf in Finder folder myfolder, then PM would do it's normal appending of a numeric suffix to the file name. If the Finder folder does not exist, then PM would create one. I haven't found any script to do this and it looks tricky to do right, especially the duplicate Finder file name problem where we need to append a numeric to the end of the attachment file name so it doesn't over write the existing file of the same name. Thanks -- Craig Dudley Systems Communications Sciences, Inc. 244 Poor Farm Rd. New Ipswich, NH 03071-3922 603-878-1148 Fax 603-878-1929
Re: PM Attachment support
Dear PowerMail Discussion lurkers, It has been five years now since this was proposed. We haven't seen *ANY* indication the PM development team is even acknowledging their attachment support needs some serious improvement. I don't suggest they need to implement improved attachment support as I proposed. But it would be nice if they suggested one or more alternatives. ANyone else want to chime in on this? Do you have a better idea? Please propose it so PM development can see other views and/or frustrations. Thanks -- Craig Dudley Systems Communications Sciences, Inc. 244 Poor Farm Rd. New Ipswich, NH 03071-3922 603-878-1148 Fax 603-925-1978 Hi, I find the way PM handles Attachments frustrating. It is difficult to know which attachments in the Attachments folder are associated with messages in different PM folders. So, since people are asking for new things to be added to PM, I would like to request a feature that will have PM move an attachment, associated with email that is moved to a PM folder, into a Finder folder of the same name in the Attachment folder. For example, if I move a message, with attachment a.pdf attached, from my Inbox to a folder named myfolder, PM would move the attachment a.pdf into a Finder folder (in PM Attachments) named myfolder. If there is already a file named a.pdf in Finder folder myfolder, then PM would do it's normal appending of a numeric suffix to the file name. If the Finder folder does not exist, then PM would create one. I haven't found any script to do this and it looks tricky to do right, especially the duplicate Finder file name problem where we need to append a numeric to the end of the attachment file name so it doesn't over write the existing file of the same name. Thanks -- Craig Dudley Systems Communications Sciences, Inc. 244 Poor Farm Rd. New Ipswich, NH 03071-3922 603-878-1148 Fax 603-878-1929
Re(2): PM Attachment support
Yeah--I have lots of issues with PowerMail--but I continue to use it and love it. Putting attachments into a folder associated with a PowerMail folder is very low on the list, maybe even lowest. But, if CTM wanted to have a questionnaire about what we want to see in PowerMail moving forward I would be happy to participate. A -- Alan Harper a...@alanharper.com 5170 Parkridge Drive Oakland, CA 94619 Portraits of a Seductive Landscape Images of Baja California http://www.alanharper.com Craig Dudley (craig.dud...@sacsi.com) said on 10/8/09: Dear PowerMail Discussion lurkers, It has been five years now since this was proposed. We haven't seen *ANY* indication the PM development team is even acknowledging their attachment support needs some serious improvement. I don't suggest they need to implement improved attachment support as I proposed. But it would be nice if they suggested one or more alternatives. ANyone else want to chime in on this? Do you have a better idea? Please propose it so PM development can see other views and/or frustrations. Thanks -- Craig Dudley Systems Communications Sciences, Inc. 244 Poor Farm Rd. New Ipswich, NH 03071-3922 603-878-1148 Fax 603-925-1978 Hi, I find the way PM handles Attachments frustrating. It is difficult to know which attachments in the Attachments folder are associated with messages in different PM folders. So, since people are asking for new things to be added to PM, I would like to request a feature that will have PM move an attachment, associated with email that is moved to a PM folder, into a Finder folder of the same name in the Attachment folder. For example, if I move a message, with attachment a.pdf attached, from my Inbox to a folder named myfolder, PM would move the attachment a.pdf into a Finder folder (in PM Attachments) named myfolder. If there is already a file named a.pdf in Finder folder myfolder, then PM would do it's normal appending of a numeric suffix to the file name. If the Finder folder does not exist, then PM would create one. I haven't found any script to do this and it looks tricky to do right, especially the duplicate Finder file name problem where we need to append a numeric to the end of the attachment file name so it doesn't over write the existing file of the same name. Thanks -- Craig Dudley Systems Communications Sciences, Inc. 244 Poor Farm Rd. New Ipswich, NH 03071-3922 603-878-1148 Fax 603-878-1929
Re: PM Attachment support
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I have a couple of filter/script combinations to deal with these.
applescript
--multiple attachments
tell application PowerMail 5.1.1a1
set theMessages to current messages
repeat with msg in theMessages
if (count of attachments of msg) 1 then
set filter criterion result to false
else
set filter criterion result to true
end if
-- display dialog filter criterion result as text
end repeat
end tell
/applescript
applescript
--attachment subject same
tell application PowerMail 5.1.1a1
set theMessages to current messages
repeat with msg in theMessages
if (name of attachments of msg) = (subject of msg) then
set filter criterion result to true
else
set filter criterion result to false
end if
end repeat
end tell
/applescript
applescript
--signature attachment
property sigs : {signature.asc, smime.p7s}
tell application PowerMail 5.1.1a1
set theMessages to current messages
repeat with msg in theMessages
repeat with attach in attachments of msg
repeat with sig in sigs
if ((name of attach) = (sig as string)) then
set filter criterion result to true
return
else
set filter criterion result to false
end if
end repeat
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
/applescript
There are 3 filters in a row using combinations of these AppleScripts.
Filters are:
Strip Sig 1
Conditions:
Other-Field... 'Content-Type' contains 'multipart/signed'
AppleScript 'Multiple Attachments'
All conditions are met
Actions:
Move attachments to trash
Strip Sig 2
Conditions:
Other-Field... 'Content-Type' contains 'multipart/mixed'
AppleScript 'Multiple Attachments'
AppleScript 'Attachment Subject Same'
All conditions met
Actions:
Move attachments to trash
Strip Sig 3
Conditions:
Other-Field... 'Content-Type' contains 'multipart/mixed'
AppleScript 'Multiple Attachments'
AppleScript 'Signature Attachment'
All conditions met
Actions:
Move attachments to trash
The only inherent limitation is that if an attachment, other than the sig
is present then nothing is trashed and the sig will have to be trashed
manually. If there were the ability to have boolean groupings of the
conditions I could combine the last 2 filters.
So far this method works for me.
--
Andy Fragen
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004, Sean McBride said:
On a related subject, browsing my attachments folder reveals hundreds of
files with names like:
PGP.sig
signature.asc
smime.p7s
As I understand it, these are digital signature files. I have been told
that other mail clients handle these specially somehow and that their
attachments folder are not cluttered with these things. Anyone know
anything about that?
Re: PM Attachment support
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Here's what I do with Spam attachments. I don't delete spam messages either. I keep around just in case I need to retrain SpamSieve. I have a 'Strip Attachments' filter that occurs sometime shortly after the 'Spam: actions' filter. It is as follows (from a suggestion via Jerome) Filter incoming checked Conditions: Spam rating 50 Attachment ends with .exe Attachment ends with winmail.dat Execute if any conditions is met Actions: Move attachments to trash You can add to the conditions for attachments like .pif or message.scr, etc but if the message has a spam rating of at least 50 then the attachments are trashed. -- Andy Fragen On Wed, Dec 29, 2004, Sean McBride said: Aren't spam attachments deleted when you delete spam? Are they? I don't know. Do you mean delete as in 'empty trash' or delete as in 'moved to spam folder'? If you mean the former, I never ever delete mail, even spam. (mail doesn't take enough space to warrant deleting.)
Re: PM Attachment support
computer artwork by subhash / 04.12.29 / 00:57 PM wrote: And why you did not delete them before? Or why you did not move the ones you want to keep to another folder? I don't understand who you use email! I don't have any of this problems ... I haven't followed this thread, but I must tell you, keeping attachment with message is _VERY_ useful. I do fair amount of beta testing for many DSP vendors. Since all the files are confidential, they won't be available publicly, of course. All the patches, PACE auth files, and these unmarked files, boy, I fit Cmd+F in PM and find the right file on my fingertip even when I am on different machines because I carry PM data with me. The message body acts as search keyword. -- - Hiro [PROTECTED] [PROTECTED] [PROTECTED]
Re(2): PM Attachment support
[listes [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 29.12.2004 um 11:22 Uhr:] Aren't spam attachments deleted when you delete spam? Not if he moves them to a different folder! ;-) -- http://www.subhash.at
Re(2): PM Attachment support
[Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 28.12.2004 um 16:49 Uhr:] because lots of attachments I just want to delete anyway. Its hard to clean through 4000 by hand. :( And why you did not delete them before? Or why you did not move the ones you want to keep to another folder? I don't understand who you use email! I don't have any of this problems ... -- http://www.subhash.at
PM Attachment support
Hi, I find the way PM handles Attachments frustrating. It is difficult to know which attachments in the Attachments folder are associated with messages in different PM folders. So, since people are asking for new things to be added to PM, I would like to request a feature that will have PM move an attachment, associated with email that is moved to a PM folder, into a Finder folder of the same name in the Attachment folder. For example, if I move a message, with attachment a.pdf attached, from my Inbox to a folder named myfolder, PM would move the attachment a.pdf into a Finder folder (in PM Attachments) named myfolder. If there is already a file named a.pdf in Finder folder myfolder, then PM would do it's normal appending of a numeric suffix to the file name. If the Finder folder does not exist, then PM would create one. I haven't found any script to do this and it looks tricky to do right, especially the duplicate Finder file name problem where we need to append a numeric to the end of the attachment file name so it doesn't over write the existing file of the same name. Thanks -- Craig Dudley Systems Communications Sciences, Inc. 244 Poor Farm Rd. New Ipswich, NH 03071-3922 603-878-1148 Fax 603-878-1929
