Re: pgnus-0.33: multipart/mixed: usage of filename?

["Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Excerpts from mail: (01-Oct-98) Re: pgnus-0.33: multipart/mixed: usage of filename? by Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
> Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch> writes:
>>>> Just use ONLY the base name in a auto generated tempdir, like gnus-uu
>>>> does.
>>> 
>>> You mean only the suffix?
>> 
>> Thats probably even better.
>
> Doing so would make sense, but if the file name characters are
> properly translated and quoted, wouldn't it be nice to have the full
> real names of the files available in the external viewer?  

I would much rather have the real file name! I think that if you get an
e-mail with a MIME object whose name is "/foo/bar/blah/whatever", then Gnus
should save the file as "whatever" in a directory that you specify in a
configuration variable. I.e., parse out the filename and override any
directory specification in the name. This way if someone sends root a
text/plain MIME object with Content-Disposition set to attachment and name
set to "/etc/passwd", the won't get saved in /etc/passwd, but will instead be
saved in /tmp/passwd (or whereever you have your gnus-mime-save-directory
configuration variable set to).

Later,
Ed