At 02:41 PM 7/30/2001 -0400, Tab Julius wrote:
>....
>Just delete the mail - do not run the file.
>
>Last week I was getting 5 to 10 of these A DAY, from all over (Brazil, US,
wherever). Each is about 200k large, so it gets annoying.
Annoying is right. For the time being, I finally set my e-mail software
(Eudora Light) to not download any attachment larger than 150K. This works
fine, and it adds a note to the downloaded message saying that the
attachment has not been downloaded and is still on the server. If it turns
out to be something I want from someone I know, like a large JPEG for
instance, I can then click on an icon and proceed to download it.
This does leave me with one problem however. This morning I was talking to
my ISP about what happens to the large attachment that remains on the
server, and appearantly it stays there indefinitely until someone does
something to remove it. I have my software set to keep e-mail on the
server for one day after I download it, and then delete it from the server.
This attachment however stays on the server indefinitely, because it was
never downloaded. We could not on the spur of the moment figure out any
way to automatically delete the unread attachment from the server when the
downloaded message is deleted after one day. As such, multiple copies of
these large attachments can soon accumulate to overload the allowed e-mail
space on the server. The only solution I have at the moment is to use a
web based e-mail capability to manually access the server to delete these
files.
Barney Gaylord (learning when I have to)
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