Re: Suggestion for saving attachments

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Christoph Conrad <christoph.conrad@gmx.de> writes:

> Hello ShengHuo,
> 
> i read about the following functionality in another mail/newsreader
> (can't remember the name...).
> 
> After saving an attachment the program optionally (by user-request)
> _replaces_ the attachment (or the content of the attachment) with the
> path to the saved attachment, something like:
> 
> - Attachment initially saved to "/home/cc/docs/foobar.txt" -
> 
> I think it would be fine to preserve the attachment itself, e.g. to
> replace the content of the attachment with this message.
> 
> This is a functionality i think it's very useful, cause the user often
> does not want to have two places where an attachment is stored,
> especially in the case of really big attachments. Often i want to work
> with a document received in an attachment and don't want to preserve the
> original document, but want to know where i saved the original document
> initially.

The functionality has been implemented, though only one part each
time.  To save and strip, press `C-o' on the MIME button, then an edit
buffer will show. If you are sure that Gnus has done the Right
Thing(TM), type `C-c C-c' to replace the part with a message/external-body.  
Of course, now Gnus inlines message/external-body.

ShengHuo