Re: How do attachments in message-mode work?

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>]

On 2018-03-12, at 15:12, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know that attachments in message-mode are just inserted strings of the
>> form like
>>
>> "<hash part type="image/jpeg" filename="..." disposition=attachment>
>> <hash /part>"
>>
>> where "hash" is an actual hash character.
>>
>> Where can I find the code responsible for parsing them?  I'd like to
>> know whether I could add another attribute (like "type", "filename", or
>> "disposition") and be sure it is going to be ignored.  (I want to hack
>> adding attachments so that the size is displayed along with other data.
>> I'd like also to change faces a bit, so that the values of the
>> attributes are more prominent, but I do not expect any troubles there.)
>
> It's all in mml.el, specifically mml-parse-1. Good luck.

Well, thanks.

Actually, I succeeded.  I will blog about it one day.

Thanks

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