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echo: synchronet
to: deon
from: MRO
date: 2023-09-02 23:32:00
subject: Improvements to email att

  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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