How Attach Reminder works

Attach Reminder scans email messages you write for words or phrases indicating an intended attachment, and then warns you if no attachment is present. You can change the list of words Attach Reminder looks for to decide whether a message might be missing an attachment, so you can set it up to check for whatever words you personally use to indicate an attachment. If you write non-English messages, you can use this feature to make Attach Reminder to understand your language. You can also specify email recipients which should always generate a reminder if no attachment is present.

When Attach Reminder decides to issue a warning, it displays a dialog box showing the To and Subject of the message along with whatever Words or Recipients triggered the warning. If you press Send Now, the message is sent immediately. If you press Do Not Send, the message is left in your Out box for further editing.

Installing Attach Reminder

System requirements

Attach Reminder is designed to run on computers that meet the following minimum specifications:

• Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, or XP.
  • QUALCOMM 5 or 6. Spamnix also works on some versions of Eudora 3 or 4, read this FAQ answer to make sure Spamnix works with your version of Eudora.
  • 128MB RAM recommended
• MacOS X v10.2 or later
  • QUALCOMM Eudora 5 or 6
  • 128MB RAM

Using the Installer

After downloading the Attach Reminder installation program, perform the following steps:

1. If Eudora is running on your system, close it.
2. Double-click on the Attach Reminder installer to run it.
3. Read each of the Installation Wizard screens and then press the Next button.

On Windows, the Installer will ask you for a Destination Directory, and offer your Eudora installation directory as the default (for example, C:\Program Files\Eudora). You should accept this default, which will actually cause Attach Reminder to be installed in the Plugins subdirectory of the Eudora directory. If you choose another Destination Directory, Attach Reminder will not work properly.

On MacOS X, the Installer will install Attach Reminder into /Applications/Spamnix Software/Attach Reminder and plug it in to all copies of Eudora on your computer from there.

Uninstalling Attach Reminder

To remove Attach Reminder from your system, perform the following steps:

• On Windows:
  1. If Eudora is running on your computer, close it.
  2. Click on the Windows Start button.
  3. Select the Settings menu, and Control Panel menu item.
  4. Select the Add/Remove Programs icon.
  5. Scroll down the list of installed applications until you find Attach Reminder, and double-click it.
  6. Answer "Yes" when it asks if you are sure you want to remove it.
  7. Follow the uninstall instructions.
• On MacOS X:
  1. Delete the folder /Applications/Spamnix Software/Attach Reminder.
  2. Empty the Trash.

If for some reason the automated uninstallation process does not fully remove Attach Reminder from your system, you can manually uninstall it:

• On Windows:
  1. If Eudora is running on your computer, close it.
  2. Delete the files <EudoraDir>\Plugins\AttchRem.* and the folder <EudoraDir>\Plugins\AttchRem, where <EudoraDir> is the folder into which you installed Attach Reminder.
  3. Delete the files <MailDir>\Plugins\AttchRem.* and the folder <MailDir>\Plugins\AttchRem, where <MailDir> is the folder in which Eudora stores your email. This may or may not be the same as <EudoraDir>.
  Attach Reminder does not add anything to the Windows registry that you need to remove in order to uninstall it.
• On MacOS X: No additional manual uninstallation steps will be necessary.

Using Attach Reminder

Attach Reminder starts automatically

Attach Reminder is a Eudora plug-in, which means it starts automatically when Eudora starts and exits automatically when Eudora exits. You do not need to take any action to activate Attach Reminder once it is installed.

Configuring Attach Reminder

Attach Reminder comes pre-configured to recognize certain words as indicating a message should contain an attachment. You can change that list of words and also specify email addresses (or patterns) to which messages should always contain an attachment via the Attach Reminder: Change Settings dialog box. To open the Attach Reminder: Change Settings dialog, select the Tools menu (Windows) or the Special menu (MacOS) and the Attach Reminder: Change Settings menu item.

The Attach Reminder Settings dialog has two panels: Reminders and General. The General panel options are:

• Registration code. This text area contains your current Attach Reminder registration code and shows which mode (Trial or Paid) Attach Reminder is currently registered for. When you obtain a new Attach Reminder registration code, enter it here.
• Log outgoing messages. This option is generally useful only if requested by Technical Support. If this option is checked, Attach Reminder will stores the most recent 1,000 messages you've sent in the Plugins\AttchRem folder (Windows) or Eudora Items/Plugins/AttchRem folder (MacOS X) of your Eudora mail folder.

The Reminders panel shows the list of Recipients (email addresses) or Words and Phrases that Attach Reminder looks for to decide if a message should contain an attachment. A message which is addressed to a Recipient or contains a listed Word or Phrase but does not have an attachment generates a warning dialog.

To add a new Recipient or Word and Phrase, press the corresponding Add button; to edit an existing entry, press Edit; to remove an existing entry, press Remove.

A few special rules apply to how Attach Reminder matches Words and Phrases and Recipients against outgoing messages:

1. A question-mark ("?") matches any single character.
2. An asterisk ("*") matches any sequence of zero or more characters.
3. A Word and Phrase only matches complete words, not partial words. For example, the Word entry "attach" will only match the word "attach", not "attached" or "attachment". If you want to match all three, you could specify the Word "attach*".
4. Within a Recipient, the asterisk and question-mark characters behave as just described, with an exception. An at-sign ("@") followed by an asterisk that is not followed by a period (".") is treated specially: it matches either nothing, or any sequence of characters ending in a period. This makes creating domain-name matching rules easy and flexible.

   Recipient entry	To or Cc header	Match?	Why
   pcr@myco.com	pcr@myco.com	Yes	exact match
   *@*myco.com	pcr@myco.com	Yes	second * matches zero characters
   *@*myco.com	pcr@mailhost.myco.com	Yes	second * matches "mailhost."
   *@myco.com	pcr@web.myco.com	No	the * matches "pcr", but "@myco.com" does not match "web.myco.com"