[MlMt] searching for attachments

aisrael alain.israel at pasteur.fr
Tue Jul 1 02:41:55 EDT 2025


FWIW, when I use *Attachments-Count*, I get 2 additional messages when 
compared to *Filename exists*. These 2 have an outlook invitation 
attached (.ics file).

Alain

On 30 Jun 2025, at 20:18, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> On 30 Jun 2025, at 8:54, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 29 Jun 2025, at 14:38, ARC MM via mailmate wrote:
>>
>>> But . .  unfortunately there is imho no way to differentiate between 
>>> a “real” attachment and signatures which contains, in my 
>>> opinion, mostly irrelevant images (icons, logo’s, . . .).
>>
>> Just a couple of general comments to this thread:
>>
>> 1. The Attachments Count based on some very old code and it is a bit 
>> unreliable. Eventually, I'll change how it works (based on my second 
>> item below).
>> 2. “Filename” (#filename) is more robust since only real 
>> attachments tend to have filenames. This is what is used by the 
>> Export-interface when dealing with attachments. In other words 
>> “Filename exists” should work better for now.
>>
> Thanks! Filename|Exists does seem to do what I want, though 
> FilenameExtension does not.
>
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