Logos, images, embedded in email messages?
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From: Peter Ceresole on 16 Mar 2010 14:05 <BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net> wrote: > Often they are forwarding by attaching the entire original message > as an attachment. And then quoting the entire original message > as well. Sadly that seems to be the way that most people handle email. Some of it is a dreadful consequence of habits created by Outlook (not Outlook Express which was, hideously enough, actually better) which practically forced you to do that. A horrible, horrible, horrible application. Maybe it's got better, I don't know, but the detestable habit remains. -- Peter
From: AES on 16 Mar 2010 16:21 In article <1jfgd30.n3dvm67aid9gN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > > > HD space isn't the > > problem; just general clutter and directory overload, and endless > > cleaning up of folders is the primary annoyance. > > I don't think that directory overload will become much of a problem. > > Eudora is splendidly robust, certainly up to 10.5.8 and I'm told it's > fine in 10.6 as well. I'd be inclined to leave it and not even think > about the crud, which Eudora will take in its stride. Sorry, that's not my point. It's my _personal_ information overload, in trying to find and keep track of files and documents, when I've got a million things going on, and can't always remember just what items I actually received, where I put them, or even what I named them.
From: Peter Ceresole on 16 Mar 2010 16:53 AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > Sorry, that's not my point. It's my _personal_ information overload, in > trying to find and keep track of files and documents, when I've got a > million things going on, and can't always remember just what items I > actually received, where I put them, or even what I named them. Okay; in that case, given that the ones you want will probably finish up in your downloads folder, make an alias to it and when you receive them, just drag them to wherever you'll best keep track of them, in your own folder structure. Then Eudora will still keep track of them (provided you don't move them, to another drive or rename them), so you might still be able to open them from the original mail, but they'll principally be where you've chosen to put them. In case they finish up in Eudora Folder:Eudora Parts Folder, make an alias to that too. It's the way I've done it, and it works quite well. Just leave the unwanted small .gifs to fester in the download folder. Eudora won't mind. -- Peter
From: gl4317 on 17 Mar 2010 00:32 In article <siegman-23D375.12253514032010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > A large organization with which I exchange a lot of emails routinely > embeds two organizational logos, and also occasional special logos or > decorative images, all in .gif format in all its emails. > > When I receive these emails using the "original Eudora" version 6.2.4 on > a MacBook under OS 10.4.11, these logos get converted and transferred > into my Downloads folder, and I have to keep cleaning them out. How long to you need to keep the original message? I don't know about the modern versions, but in Eudora 3.1.1, the attachments setting includes a check box labeled "Trash Attachments with Message". If you select that, the image files go away when you delete the message. Many e-mail programs do the exact same thing, only the "Attachments" directory is more hidden than it is in Eudora. In Outlook for Windows, for example, what Eudora calls the "Attachments" directory is called some bizarre random character name, and hidden deep within the system settings folder. Most people who use such programs just drag the relevant attachments out of the message and put them in a folder of their own choosing that is more relevant than the catch-all "Attachments" folder. -- -Glennl Please note this e-mail address is a pit of spam, and most e-mail sent to this address are simply lost in the vast mess.
From: Peter Ceresole on 17 Mar 2010 03:53
gl4317(a)yahoo.com <gl4317(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I don't know about the modern versions, but in Eudora 3.1.1, the > attachments setting includes a check box labeled "Trash Attachments with > Message". If you select that, the image files go away when you delete the > message. The point is that the OP also receives attached files that he wants to keep. It's reliably and automagically differentiating between those, and the logos, that is posing the problem. -- Peter |