[pmmail-list] Feature Request

[Dean Boulding]

Tim,

I think someone pointed this out earlier, but if all you want to do is 
automatically save all the attachments in one or more messages to a standard 
(fixed) folder, you can easily make a filter, to be applied manually, to do this.

Try something like search Header for @ (guaranteed hit) and manual execution.  
The final option in the action combo box is "save attachments to directory", 
specify your directory and you're done.  Right click on the selected messages, 
apply manual filters and it should put all the attachments in your specified 
directory.

This seems to respond to what you were asking for.  If you also wanted to delete 
the attachments from the original message, then obviously it does not, and I will 
shut up now.

Cheers,
Dean


On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:43:37 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:

|On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:00:54 +0700, Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:
|>
|>On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:14:58 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
|>>The next time there is an update to PMMail, I would like to see a "save all 
|>>attachments to..." option in the message reader.  I sometimes get messages
|>>with many attachments, from people who aren't familiar with zip, and it's a
|>>pain to do them one at a time.
|>
|>This is an excellent idea but if the coders are listening, don't forget:
|>you must provide an option to change, on an attachment-by-attachment basis,
|>the name of each attachment before saving.
|
|Well, if you need to do that, you should probably do them one at a time
|just as you do now.  I'm looking for a quick shortcut; I don't want to
|have to respond to a "Do you want to change the name of xxxxx.xxx?" dialog
|10 times.
|
|On the other hand, I could see a "manage attachments" dialog with a
|multicolumn grid: first column is a checkbox to select/deselect the
|attachment, second column is the attachment name in the e-mail, third
|column is the destination file name and is editable.  Add an edit box and
|browse button to specify the destination directory, and that would be
|pretty cool.
|
|>Sometimes it is necessary to
|>change a file name, sometimes it is convenient, and also sometimes files
|>are sent as attachments with Long File Names which can't be saved at all
|>on 8.3 systems (unless changed at save time).
|
|What's the point?  Does PMMail actually run on any 8.3-only systems?
|--
|- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
|  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
|
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