Hello Oli,

 Ol> you don't decompress netmail,

That is the only way to do it if you are dealing with an mail bundle.

 Ol> There is also no policy or standard that directs the anonymous idiot
 Ol> not to send highly compressible garbage in an "arcmail compressed mail
 Ol> bundle" that blows up on the DOS partition on unpack.

I would call that excessively annoying.

 Ol> But we don't have to discuss the failures of Policy 4.bollocks or the
 Ol> FTSC.

OK.

 Ol> Which software does deliver netmail as a compressed mail bundle? Is it
 Ol> all kinds of different tossers or some specific software that does it
 Ol> by default?

I don't know why mail arrives sometimes compressed. My own software will do that if I direct it so. Someone, or some software compressed that mail before I received it.

My issue is a simple one. Mail arrives in my insecure inbound in that form and it gets renamed to .sec and stays there until I decompress it myself and toss it.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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