[pmmail-list] HELP! I need the names of the attached Files on a printed Message!!!

[Sven Schumacher]

For legal reasons we must attach the printed email to the documents in the binders. In a contract you need a physical sheet of paper to sign on. For shure 
this is nothing against PMMAIL! I've stored all email since 1998 on my computer and there is no need to delete them.... But if I should sign an order I like to 
know which version of the contarct or plan was attached... the PATH is not very important but the name of the file and the filesize IS...

For completeness:

Netscape could do that since V4.x of Messenger and Outlook can do this since I seen it first... So if PMMAIL can give me a way to print just this lousy 
names and sizes I would really like that!

On Tue, 06 Aug 2002 12:10:09 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:

>On Tue, 06 Aug 2002 20:30:10 +0200, Sven Schumacher wrote:
>>
>>If I recieve an Attachment of course there is no Path, but on a printed
>>Message should be a way to get the NAMES and the FILESIZE of the recieved 
>>Attachments on that sheet of Paper WITHOUT using a pencil.


>I agree with that; the printed message ought to have a table summarizing the 
>attachments.  That should not be hard to do.  Outlook does it (ducks the 
>tomatoes).

>>On Messages I've sent there IS eventually a way to get the Filename of the
>>File I've attached.

>The FILENAME, yes, but not the PATH.  That isn't stored anywhere, and there's 
>no place to put it.  As soon as the message goes into the outbox, the 
>attachment exists only as a MIME-encoded section in the "sent" folder.  There 
>is no longer any connection to the original file on disk.  The message in the 
>"sent" folder is an exact copy of what went out to your recipients.  You 
>don't want path names embedded in outgoing messages, because that reveals 
>information about the organization of your hard disk.

>I routinely delete attachments from disk after I send them, since I know they 
>live on in the "sent" folder.

>>And also I really need to see on a printed message which
>>NAME and SIZE the attachmend had...

>This is reasonable.

>>This is important because of we are sending contracts an construction-plans
>>via email. We NEED printouts of the mails we've sent AND we need to see 
>>which version of we have sent or recieved...

>Why do you need a printout?  Paper isn't any more believable than disk (or 
>shouldn't be).  I'm stunned by the number of people I talk to who use paper 
>and 3-ring binders as their e-mail archive.  If you need to verify the 
>version you sent, why wouldn't you just go out to your "sent" folder and open 
>the message to verify it?

>Copy your e-mail folders to CD once a month.  That'll last as long as your 
>paper copy, and it is just as malleable!

>>At the moment we need to make e screenshot so we can see the attachment
>>names on a printout. THAT can't be the right way!

>No.  The right way is to bypass the paper altogether.  That's the POINT of e-
>mail.

>--
>- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
>  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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