On 27-Jul-06 Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 08:46 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Far easier solution: don't accept e-mail with attachments
Wouldn't work for me, there are too many legitimate reasons why somebody would need to send me an e-mail with an attachment.
I have to agree with this too! The whole point of MIME and attachments is to provide a mechanism for transmitting information of kinds which plain-text mail is not suitable for. People need to be able to send and receive such information.
I'm wondering a bit why Mark (OP) is seeking such a solution (interesting idea though it is). I receive on average over 1000 emails a day, about 2/3 of which are pure spam (and at least half the rest are mailing-list postings which I'm not interested in reading). I have no particular difficulty, and very close to 100 per cent success, in deleting these on the receiving server before I donwload the rest, purely on the basis of apparent sender, and subject line. Total time for this: 15-20min/day.
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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