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bug#6081: 23.1; emacs23 and etach
From: |
enno . vet |
Subject: |
bug#6081: 23.1; emacs23 and etach |
Date: |
Tue, 4 May 2010 21:53:27 +0200 |
>>>>> "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.
bug#6081: 23.1; emacs23 and etach, Richard Stallman, 2010/05/05