Organising Attachments
Eudora Tip #225/26-May-2004
Under Settings — Attachments you can tell Eudora where to save all the attachments you receive. I receive all kinds of files: pictures and text to add to websites, documents to edit for clients, copies of files for my information and seemingly endless streams of junk called smime.p7s or WARNING.txt. Sometimes clients send me the same document several times over several days; sometimes with changes and sometimes by mistake.
Fortunately Eudora kindly adds a number to files with the same name, but I prefer a bit more organisation. Doug Everly’s free FolderOrg is an AppleScript Folder Action that organises files and folders by moving them into dated subfolders.
I’d been using it for months and hadn’t realised how much I liked it until I set up a new computer last week. Within a few days I was heartily sick of attachments just being dumped into my Attachments Folder.
Doug includes clear instructions about how to install his Folder Action and it’s very easy. Try it out — you may find you like it. And of course you can attach it to any folder. Doug suggests using it for your Downloads folder, your Documents Folder and maybe even your desktop.
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smime.p7s is a security feature for Outlook Express on Windows. A bit like PGP, it displays in inbox an icon showing that sender attached the certificate to authenticate the message. A friend of mine attached them to any message that already has an attachment to let his friends know its an intention attachment and not a virus.
Mac users don’t worry about mail attachments yet but someday we may have to. Maybe Eudora should have a similar functionality.
Since Eudora doesn’t know what they are, they just pile up uselessly in the attachments folder.
Somebody posted a script to get rid of them and .vcf and such. If attached to a folder action, it brought my Quicksilver dual 1Gh down to a crawl. Running it manually takes longer than navigating to attachments, sort by name and then grab and trash.
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