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Improvements to email attachment downloads

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From: deon@VERT/ALTERANT (deon)
To: Digital Man
Subject: Improvements to email attachment downloads
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Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 12:16:01 +1000
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by: deon - Sun, 3 Sep 2023 02:16 UTC

Hey DM,

I'm using sychronet more for "bbs" related email, and I had a user send me an email with 10 screenshots (and thus 10 attachments).

Since I'm away from home, I dont have POP enabled, and leveraged a terminal to download the attachments to look at them. (That all worked well.)

However, after *each* attachment I was asked if I wanted to hangup after it being received. I also didnt know how many there were, and at one point I wondered if it was looping. (It wasnt.)

I wondered if it was possible to some changes, I was thinking these three things:
* Can all attachments be sent as a batch, thus one answer to "yes" that I want to download them, and one answer to "no" dont hangup.

* Is it possible to display how many (and I guess how big) the attachments are?

* If batch is not possible, can the ask to hangup be only asked once?

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From: digital.man@VERT (Digital Man)
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by: Digital Man - Sun, 3 Sep 2023 04:13 UTC

Re: Improvements to email attachment downloads
By: deon to Digital Man on Sun Sep 03 2023 12:16 pm

> I wondered if it was possible to some changes

I created a gitlab issue for your request:
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/613
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From: mro@VERT/BBSESINF (MRO)
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by: MRO - Sun, 3 Sep 2023 04:32 UTC

Re: Improvements to email attachment downloads
By: deon to Digital Man on Sun Sep 03 2023 12:16 pm

> Hey DM,
>
> I'm using sychronet more for "bbs" related email, and I had a user send me
> an email with 10 screenshots (and thus 10 attachments).
>
> Since I'm away from home, I dont have POP enabled, and leveraged a terminal
> to download the attachments to look at them. (That all worked well.)
>
> However, after *each* attachment I was asked if I wanted to hangup after it

you might be the first sysop ever to get an email from a user with 10 screenshots/attachments. that's pretty much against email etiquette.

I would tell the guy to send one zip archive instead.

i think it's a decent idea to send it all as a batch but that's it.
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Subject	Author
Improvements to email attachment downloads	deon
Improvements to email attachment downloads	Digital Man
Improvements to email attachment downloads	MRO