Open Source Applications Foundation

[Design] Delivery of attachments to selected recipients

Steven Healey Thu, 5 Dec 2002 15:29:48 -0600


With most (if not all) e-mail clients I have used, delivery of attachments
is an all-or-nothing proposition:  if there is an attachment, it goes to
everyone.  However, often yoiu do not want to send the attachment to
everyone on the distribution list.  Say you are sending a for-record CAD
drawing to an engineer, and want to let QA know the drawing was sent, but
not to send the 20 MB file to QA.

When building the To list for an e-mail, it would be helpful to allow
designation of recipients who will / will not receive the attachments.
Those who do not could get a footer along the lines of "Attachment XYX sent
to JSmith;MJones".

sPh