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I know sabnzbd+ supports adding a password to use to extract downloads, but it would be really nice if there was a switch or something that would let us choose not to download files if they do require a password. There are programs that can check this, so I'd assume it's possible to implement. It's just annoying having wasted 1gb of bandwidth only to find that the uploader wants you to jump through hoops to get a password. So that's annoying on its own, but also for some of my RSS feeds, nzbs with nearly indistinguishable names pop up a day or so after the original release, and they're password protected. I didn't even want them in the first place. So if it's possible, I'd find this feature pretty handy.

This is something that should be doable with 0.6's pre-processing script functionality. Alternatively, use an nzb source that can show you if something is passworded or not.

It's already in 0.6.0, which is in (closed) Alpha testing now.
As soon as the first encrypted RAR file is encountered, the job is paused.

Yes, the queue says why it's paused.
(And there's a warning).

Presume it only downloads enough of the RAR file to tell if it's encrypted or not, rather than downloading a whole rar file as usenet is polluted with zthis scammers right now and not everyone has access to newzbin, it closed it's doors a long time ago and I lost my password long before that.

So, I'm hoping the pre-processing has involved you looking at RAR file structure so you can download as few bytes as possible to tell if any rar file in there is encrypted rather than downloading a whole file and checking, as this would still result in many gigabytes of wasted zthis crap.

It downloads one full rar-file.
There may remain some articles in the cache because of the highly parallel nature of downloading.
They will be discarded when you decide to delete the job.

Could you also give us the option to set the job as failed? Thanks !

Sensible suggestion, I'll look into it.