Re: download attachment and do chmod for certain files

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Adam Sjøgren <asjo@koldfront.dk> writes:

> Eric writes:
>
>> I expected there would be some sort of "save MIME handle alist" thing
>> where you could have it automatically kick in when you saved an image,
>> but I didn't immediately see anything like that.
>
> There is a generic variable for setting the permissions of a saved
> attachment, regardless of type:
>
> ,----[ C-h v mm-attachment-file-modes RET ]
> | mm-attachment-file-modes is a variable defined in ‘mm-decode.el’.
> | Its value is 420
> | Original value was 384
> | 
> |   You can customize this variable.
> |   This variable was introduced, or its default value was changed, in
> |   version 22.1 of Emacs.
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | Set the mode bits of saved attachments to this integer.
> `----
>
> It is used in the function mm-save-part-to-file, which could either be
> replaced or advice'd to only have the permissions applied to specific
> types of attachments.

Excellent! In fact I glanced over this a second ago, when poking around
in the code, but somehow didn't tweak to the fact that this does exactly
what Emanuel is after.

Thanks,
Eric