[pmmail-list] PMMAIL 2.20.2380 file corruption (forwards with attachments)

[Carl Gehr]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:23:36 +0100, Paul Hodges wrote:

>On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:17:52 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:
>
>>  >  This is unavoidable if you want to view or process the attachment. 
>>  
>>  WHY is is 'unavoidable?'
>
>Because to look at or process the attachment it has to be decoded
>from the MIME form.  If no processing is required (as in forwarding
>without looking at it), then of course this decoding is not required
>and should be avoided to save waste of effort (let alone potential
>bugs!).
>

But, you are making the ASSUMPTION that a file must be created; and
that when it is created, it must be a 'permanent' file.  [I do not even
accept that a file is required, but that is a different issue that I
addressed in another post.]  The problem is that the file that is
created is not DELETED by the same process that created it when the
process goes away.

PMMail even goes further than that.  If I open a new message and attach
a file to it for transmission, PMMail makes a COPY of the file and PUTS
IT IN THE ..\PMMAIL\TEMP DIRECTORY!  And, it does this even if the file
is NEVER VIEWED or processed by the sender.  It certainly does NOT need
a COPY of the file to decode it into the outbound message!