On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 06:33:14PM +1000, Jiri Baum wrote: > Hello, > > Sami Dalouche: > > > The operative word being `need to'. It'd be a very good feature indeed > > > if the e-mail client checked the size of the message and said, when > > > appropriate, something along the lines of "this is an unusually large > > > message by Internet standards; are you sure? (y/N)" and popped up a > > > wizard for other ways of transferring the file. > > > > Hey ! Writing such a software for Windows os OK and usual but do not > > begin to do this under Linux ! > > Actually, I think I *was* talking about Windows, but why not Linux? (OK, > apart from the pop-up-wizard bit...) > > Every mailer I've seen has a send/abort/headers/whatever screen just before > the message goes off. In elm, most of the screen is blank for that! It'd be > just as easy to use that part of screen for netiquette warnings. >
Ah ! You just want that the software tells you what's the size of your message w/o a popup ? Mutt does this well. see : ===== Attachments ===== 1 /tmp/mutt-pingoo-16220-0 [text/plain, 7bit, 19K] 2 =inbox [text/plain,8bit, 507K] This is a part of his last screen. What's the matter with Mutt ? He doesn't add all the size to give a global size ? Maybe it's configurable. > (I think tin - the newsreader - does that for postings. After you compose a > post, when it's asking you whether you want to post/quit/edit/pgp, it often > shows a message saying "your post exceeds 78 columns; people may have > trouble with that; the first line to exceed 78 columns is: `...'" or > something on those lines.) > > > It's one thing to send Christmas gifs to people that are a couple of > > > hundred bytes long; it's quite a different story when it's a huge, > > > uncompressed bitmap which does exactly the same job. Sadly, in most > > > e-mail clients either would be just a filename, with no immediate > > > indication of how big it really is. > > > > If u insist to have a such function, maybe Mutt can do that... > > That's where it belongs, isn't it? (Well, maybe there should be a > standalone version of that program, too - you'd give it a prepared message > and it'd give back any warnings, with exit code 0 for OK, 1 for minor faux > pas, etc.) > > > Jiri > -- > Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently > quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why. -- | . ICQ : 25529539 | | |\ | | | \ / AIM : linhax |___ | | \| |__| / \ IRC nick : linhax Sami Dalouche : [EMAIL PROTECTED] DHIS : pingoo.dhis.org
