-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, January 17, 2003, Thomas Fernandez wrote...
>>> It is technically possible to filter on that, very much like an >>> HTML attachment is now shown as such in the attachment pane. >>> Currently it is not possible to filter on attachment extensions, >>> but I believe it is in the wishlist. >> I'm confused... are you saying you can filter on an attachment >> header? > Technically, yes. Enlighten me... I'd love to know... honest. :) >> otherwise you'll probably start matching things in the attachment >> body for words like sex. > What's wrong with sex? ;-) <g> absolutely nothing ;) I've just found that in the case of 'random' text produced by base64 encoded files, that particular word seems to come up the most ;) I guess the developer probably had the same sense of humor (or at least similar) that the developer of the unix commands had ;) >> Plus you also have to take into account that the attachment must be >> encoded in 7bit or 8bit, or provide a base64 decoder as part of the >> filtering, and to be honest, that is going to slow the filtering >> down a *lot* when it comes to bit emails. > You say that it will slow the system down. I say that *if* you want > to use such a filter, you will have to accept a slow-down of a few > nano-seconds. If you don't want that, don't use such a filter. ;-) This is true I guess, but it wouldn't be a few nano-seconds for large attached emails. I get some in the range of 90-200meg sometimes, and even just selecting and opening them can take some time. - -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQA/AwUBPihVMCuD6BT4/R9zEQKO9QCg8LI62ThO/b1noMU0vAflTFFeEWEAoNmL cuF3UB8H4YqiUycEPZZtU4ot =UWk3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
