Re: [Fetchmail-users] ATP dynamic delivery

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 29.07.23 um 10:30 schrieb sup...@gm...:
> It is very poorly documented - it also seems a daft amount of work to make something that should be hidden from the end user visible. I cannot see any tangible benefit other than,  "useless gimic marketing bollocks".
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> I will try the --keep option and observe what I get - it occurs to me that one option work simply be to "keep" for a limited time period and delete older messages.  Based on observations of the propagation delay, keeping for 1 hour would probably save 99% of attachments. However, I understand that some part of the triage of these attachments can involve a human in the loop for a small number of attachments so maybe simply keeping for 24 hours would restore full functionality without requiring maintenance.
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> I think that handling the dummy email (and possible duplicates) is easily done downstream (eg I can filter the dummy email out so I never see it).
  I was thinking more along the lines "if we can match the headers
against a regular expression to just skip the message..."
> Changing the server delivery policy to "replace" instead of "dynamic" appears to be the ideal solution but someone somewhere has gotten very excited by this so I'm not holding my breath.

You might think that the tenant paying Microsoft services were in
control of that switch.
Of course if they pay money to get rid of their own thinking, poking the
too-lazy-to-think payer is vain endeavour. Hope I am not stepping on
anyone's toes here, but then again such entities are usually robust
enough to not care about outsider's opinions...
   I understand that in larger organizations the bodies passing such
outsourcing decisions are not necessary aware or interested in what
individuals think and are more in a "we have the broader view and know
better what is best" attitude. Then you are trapped between the
proverbial rock and the hard place.

I am wondering why people would believe e-mail was real-time
communication to make this necessary. Spam killed the real-time aspect
decades ago, and if they take an hour to scan anything else but a zip
bomb, something's wrong with the scanner.