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On the system I have been using for some years at the surgery I recently commanded it to remove _all_ attachments and file them in a suitable directory - many of them are papers that theoretically inform us of important matters.
On Sunday 15 February 2004 14:10, Simon Waters wrote:
If you want to extract files from emails and the like I think you are stuck using one of the many mail filtering tools - I don't think Postfix will do it - it may make it easy to call such a tool. It seems an odd thing to do - but I guess you have our reasons.
I think it will become standard.
For a SME/General Practice it replicates what one does with the paper, much of
which requires one copy to be filed where it could be found if somebody
needed it.
As far as viruses etc go, it means that the attachments can be held somewhere
where there is a local concentration of clue and rules, neither of which
reliably apply to/are applied by the average user inside many
organisations.
It would tend to encourage people back toward sending plain text emails with
the information inside them, rather than using emails as compliments slips
("please see the letter in the attached Word Document")
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Adrian Midgley (Linux desktop)
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