From: enno.vet@gmx.net
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 6081@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6081: 23.1; emacs23 and etach
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 21:53:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6647-Tue04May2010215327+0200-enno.vet@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr5lrrdqt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 04 May 2010 09:36:54 -0400)
>>>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>> IIUC rmail-mime does not allow you to detach attachments, only
>>> to view them and save a copy elsewhere.
>> So "detach" means actually remove from the mbox file?
>
> That's what I understood from the original message:
> (i.e. to save them elsewhere, not within the RMAIL file)
> IIUC rmail-mime does not allow you to detach attachments, only to view
> them and save a copy elsewhere.
Exactly.
Unfortunately quite a few of my correspondents readily send attachments completely unnecessarily -- more or less automatically going with their responses to mails with attachments -- and I'm certainly not in a position to educate them about it.
So a lot of redundancy ends up in my mail file, and I cherish the possibility to actually dispose of that. etach's detach does exactly that, pulls the attachment out of the mail, offers to save it (poss. with a different name), and just makes a note that it has removed an attachment and to which file such like:
"""
------_=_NextPart_001_01CAEB5E.3071D732
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Former-Content-Type: text/html;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Former-Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
[file:/home/enno/detached/FILE_0004.html]
------_=_NextPart_001_01CAEB5E.3071D732--
"""
As you can imagine, this helps to reduce the size of my mail file considerably, which in turn makes working with email as quick as you would expect it (Emacs gets a wee bit slow with a mail file of several MBytes...).
Brgds, enno.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-04 19:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-02 20:15 bug#6081: 23.1; emacs23 and etach enno.vet
2010-05-03 16:23 ` Glenn Morris
2010-05-04 2:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-04 3:50 ` Glenn Morris
2010-05-04 13:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-05-04 19:53 ` enno.vet [this message]
2010-05-05 14:50 ` Richard Stallman
2010-05-06 18:30 ` Glenn Morris
2010-05-11 9:20 ` enno.vet
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