I can hear you saying, “But you just had your big launch yesterday.” Phooey and p-shaw, we say! We don’t rest on our laurels. So after getting right on top of some minor display issues this morning, we’re moving onto new hotness.

This time we’re introducing a way to handle those recurring worthless attachments. You know the ones we’re talking about: embedded background images in HTML messages, or image-based signatures from those “make a fancy email signature” services.

Enter Fwd:Vault’s new Attachment Filters. When a junk backup happens like the ones we described above, you can create a filter to prevent that file from being saved again. All you have to do is check the box labeled “Don’t save this file again.”

A filter will be created automatically when the file is deleted.

Note that filters are ignored when backing up through the “Upload” page on the website.

You can review, edit, and delete any of your filters by going to the “My Account” page and clicking “Attachment filters” in the sidebar.

Freebie accounts can create a single filter, but that limit is removed for Pro Vault users.

Update: We’ve added more details on Attachment Filters to our new System Documentation.