***NOTE: This version will only work with YAM 2.5 and above. If you do not
have at least YAM 2.5, do not use this version, it will not work. Stay with
V1.6 until you upgrade YAM to 2.5.
As anyone who is a subscriber to any YahooGroups' mailing lists (or
"groups") would know, each message distributed by Yahoo comes with a few
lines of advertising appended to each and every message.
Although high capacity harddrives nowadays makes the problem of disk
space lost to this advertising less of a concern, it is unsolicited
advertising nevertheless, and it is so much nicer to be able to read
people's messages in their original form without the constant sight
of unsolicited advertising appended to their sig :^).
This started out as a very basic script, but I just kept adding and adding to
it. I have done extensive testing, and although it works fine on my setup
it may not on yours. Please report any problems.
FEATURES:
· OS4 Reaction GUI with progress bar and info on number of messages scanned and
adverts stripped.
· Will locate the Incoming Folder regardless of its actual name or postion in
the folder list or language (I hope...) YAM is running in.
· Will only scan mails flagged as New in the Incoming Folder - because if
you're anything like me you will usually have ~50 Read mails in your incoming
folder waiting to be manually archived :^).
· If no new mails are downloaded from the server, no scanning at all takes
place. If there are new mails downloaded, only these new mails are scanned.
· Intelligent scanning - if any new messages are not YahooGroup messages, they
will be skipped.
· After updating Incoming Folder index, returns you to your previous
folder/state before script exits. For example, if you have selected a number
of messages to be deleted in a folder and the script starts after a download,
you will be restored to that folder with the messages reselected when the
script terminates.
Some people have queried my method of handling the Incoming folder externally
of Yam instead of going through Yam's ARexx port. I tried and tested both
methods and found that for most (but not all) cases, analyzing the Incoming
folder was quite a lot slower than doing it directly via AmigaDOS commands.
Note that there is a long-standing bug introduced into later versions of YAM
necessiating updating the Incoming Folder index twice. When this bug is fixed,
scanning will only need to be done once. This adds time to the scanning
process :^/, and it is recommended to clean your Incoming Folder regularly ;^).
INSTALLATION:
To install, simply copy this script to YAM:Rexx. Now open YAM's Config panel
and go to the ARexx section. Hilite the "After getting new mail" item and load
"Rexx/YahooGroupsScanner.rexx" into the Script gadget. Double check the Pop-up
selector is on ARexx and not AmigaDOS. Leave "Open console window unchecked,
but (IMPORTANT) make sure "Wait for termination" is checked ON. Click on Save,
and that's it.
*Important* - The AWNPipe: device *must* be installed! Download the latest
AWNPipe: from http://web.ukonline.co.uk/awnpipe , in the Download section.
HISTORY:
V1.7 (22-Dec-2004)
· Made the necessary changes to accomoadte YAM 2.5's new means of handling
flags in the message filename rather than its comment.
· Removed the double-update of the Incoming folder's index introduced in V1.6
as a workaround to a bug in YAM, as this bug appears to be gone now.
· Resolved the bug where adverts were not stripped from quoted-printable
messages.
V1.6 (04-Jun-2004)
· Oops, didn't include the YAM bug double-update-workaround in V1.5. Included.
V1.5 (29-May-2004)
· Yahoo changed the advert separaters slightly
V1.4 (17-Feb-2003)
· YAM 2.4dev introduced a significant change to the way a message's
status is represented. This update accomodates this change.
V1.3 (07-Sep-2001) - not publicly released
· Improved YAM config file parsing
· Added more error messages
V1.2 (28-Jul-2001)
· Changed the banner seperation identifier code.
V1.1 (30-Jan-2001)
· Updated for use with YahooGroups after they took over eGroups
Note: script name is now YahooGroupsScanner.rexx.
· Window title shows when Incoming folder is being updated after the scanner
has finished
V1.0 (21-Oct-2000)
· GUI now autocloses on completion of scan
· Abort is now working
· Locates .config file in user directory, not just YAM:
· There was a report of the script failing when the To: contents were mixed
upper and lower case. Fixed.
· Corrected installation docs which indicated the wrong filename and confused
a few people, sorry.
· GUI is now not active when it opens
V0.13ß (18-Sep-2000)
· Original release
THINGS TO DO (MAYBE...):
· Open GUI on Yam's own screen, currently opens on default screen.
· Faster analysis of Incoming folder
· Scanning of archived old mail.
· Preferences for scanning other non-YahooGroups mail. Currently only messages
from YahooGroups with their current seperater pattern is used.
· German and other language translation (localization?) of program text and
docs.
· Strip HTML attachments.
· Any requests???
THANKS
Thanks to the following people in alphabetical order for help or suggestions.
Apologies for anyone I've missed - please let me know if I have.
Matteo Cavalleri
Javier de las Rivas
Emilio Desalvo
Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz
Bill Parker
Mark Reynolds
Krister S. Skrtic
Bruce Steers
...and to the many others who just wrote and thanked me.
DISCLAIMER:
· This script is to be used entirely at your own risk, and although I have
performed extensive testing, I will not be held responsible for any loss of
data as a result of its use.
· This script is (C)2000-04, and may only be distributed in its original
unmodified form.
If you disagree with any of the above, do not use the script!
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