Logos, images, embedded in email messages?
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From: AES on 14 Mar 2010 15:25 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. Is there a method i can suggest to them to include or encode these "purely decorative" graphic elements in their messages so that they maybe will still be seen, but won't get downloaded at my end? -- while still allowing them to send occasional wanted "real images" (embedded jpegs, PDFs) in the same messages that *will* get auto-downloaded to my HD? [For example, do images contained in Signature files get downloaded? Are there other ways to embed images so that they are seen, but not auto-downloaded?] Alternatively, is there something I can do at my end -- some preference in Eudora, maybe? -- that will auto-convert and save to HD embedded jpegs and PDFs, but NOT embedded gifs?
From: Jolly Roger on 14 Mar 2010 15:48 In article <siegman-23D375.12253514032010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > Alternatively, is there something I can do at my end -- some preference > in Eudora, maybe? -- that will auto-convert and save to HD embedded > jpegs and PDFs, but NOT embedded gifs? You might consider writing a script that will remove these specific images from all emails from their domain when you receive such emails. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Peter Ceresole on 14 Mar 2010 16:14 AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > Alternatively, is there something I can do at my end -- some preference > in Eudora, maybe? -- that will auto-convert and save to HD embedded > jpegs and PDFs, but NOT embedded gifs? I don't think there is- at least, nothing that wonn't be enormously more trouble than it's worth, and risks deleting or blocking the wrong files. Simplest is just to leave them be. They won't be very large files, HDs are big enough to keep them without filling up, and if you feel like a holiday task you can do a find on the logo name and delete them. Even on dialup, I don't think they hold things up much. And if you're thinking of trying to persuade your senders to leave out their logos from their standard email templates... I'd say forget it. -- Peter
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 14 Mar 2010 18:30 AES 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. > > Is there a method i can suggest to them to include or encode these > "purely decorative" graphic elements in their messages so that they > maybe will still be seen, but won't get downloaded at my end? -- while > still allowing them to send occasional wanted "real images" (embedded > jpegs, PDFs) in the same messages that *will* get auto-downloaded to my > HD? > > [For example, do images contained in Signature files get downloaded? > Are there other ways to embed images so that they are seen, but not > auto-downloaded?] > > Alternatively, is there something I can do at my end -- some preference > in Eudora, maybe? -- that will auto-convert and save to HD embedded > jpegs and PDFs, but NOT embedded gifs? Huh! It's been a long time since I've used Eudora 6.x, but if I remember right there is an option somewhere telling not to save implemented images to disk. - And if I remember right, it's in the same section where you uncheck download of V-cards... cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Kathy Morgan on 14 Mar 2010 19:38
Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > In article > <siegman-23D375.12253514032010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>, > AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > > > Alternatively, is there something I can do at my end -- some preference > > in Eudora, maybe? -- that will auto-convert and save to HD embedded > > jpegs and PDFs, but NOT embedded gifs? > > You might consider writing a script that will remove these specific > images from all emails from their domain when you receive such emails. Part of what OP wants could be done more easily with filters. Create a filter "if From contains this particular sender" and an action of "Move attachments" to a folder specially created for the purpose. Create the folder first, putting it in a convenient location where you can easily check for any of the jpegs and PDFs that you want to keep and drag the embedded gifs to the trash. They should be really easy to spot and will all be grouped together as whatever.gif, whatever1.gif, whatever2.gif, etc. -- Kathy |