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Norm - 10 Nov 2005 13:40 GMT

I'm trying to find out where in coming email attachments are directed.
I'm curious plus I'm trying to make sure when I get spam I delete any
associated attachments.

I know I can set an attachments folder for downloads but I gather some
attachments go to a Spool Folder. Don't understand what type of
attachments are sent where and why.. Sometimes when I delete emails the
attachments are sent to my Mac's trash folder but not always.

Would appreciate any tips on this. Thanks.

BTW, I use Eudora 6.2 with OS X 10.3.9.

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Christian - 10 Nov 2005 20:32 GMT

> I know I can set an attachments folder for downloads but I gather some
> attachments go to a Spool Folder. Don't understand what type of
> attachments are sent where and why.. Sometimes when I delete emails the
> attachments are sent to my Mac's trash folder but not always.

I know your problem. From time to time, I just look through the various
folders in the "Eudora" folder ("spool folder", "parts folder", "cache
folder", etc.) and delete them manually if necessary. However, with
today's generous hard disk space, doing this is not that urgent like in
earlier times.

Best wishes, Christian.

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Norm - 10 Nov 2005 20:50 GMT

> > I know I can set an attachments folder for downloads but I gather some
> > attachments go to a Spool Folder. Don't understand what type of
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> Best wishes, Christian.

OP back.

Thanks for the response.

Have you found an easy, quick way to determine which items in those
Eudora sub-folders (Spool, Parts, Cache folders) are ones that shouldn't
be deleted or would be helpful not to delete versus those that are
definitely associated with spam.

Thank you.

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James Meiss - 10 Nov 2005 20:53 GMT

> I'm trying to find out where in coming email attachments are directed.
> I'm curious plus I'm trying to make sure when I get spam I delete any
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> BTW, I use Eudora 6.2 with OS X 10.3.9.

I don't think any attachments that you receive go to the spool folder,
only stuff that you send. They get "spooled" before sending. In my
experience anything in that folder has been sent and is junkable--though
In.Temp and Out.Temp probably shouldn't be touched, or indeed any of the
files while Eudora is running.

Under POP some 'attachments' like images that are embedded into email go
automatically into a folder called "parts folder"

But if you use IMAP, it seems that there is a subfolder to your IMAP
folder called "IMAP attachments" that seems to get some files, though on
my system these are all broken--they don't really appear to be the
correct files.

So, it seems complicated, and I don't completely understand where things
go.

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