[Alpine-info] attachments and ms defender - ideas?

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2023, superaorta at gmail.com wrote:


> Since I hook emails off the outlook server before the scans take place 

> (but end up reading them after the scans have completed) I only receive 

> the preview link (which is dead by then because the scan is complete).


If I understand you correctly, you are downloading messages out of the 
outlook server while the scanning process is happening. If this is the 
case, you are seeing that your actions and those of the server are 
incompatible, and one has to stop so you can resume handling your email 
properly.

Fortunately I do not have this issue, so I would not know how to stop in 
on the Outlook side. My hunch is that this is an administrator decision 
pushed on you, and you cannot disable it, so the only thing left to do is 
to change your flow of work. Here are some suggestions that you can 
explore:

1. Be selective about what you download. If your tool to download message 
allows filters, create one to not to download everything and only what you 
are ready to read.

2. Filter messages upon delivery. If messages have attachments, send them 
to a special folder. Then manually check messages in that folder and 
download them through a different process that you download those from 
your inbox.

3. Do not download and erase the message in the server, but download a 
copy of it and keep track of what you have downloaded. Then use a tool 
that can syncrhonize what you have downloaded and needs to be deleted. If 
the tool is smart, you can delete a message from your local folder and 
make your tool re-download it when needed.

I hope this helps.

-- 
Eduardo