Re: download attachment and do chmod for certain files

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> writes:
>
>> Every time I get a photo (almost always a .jpg) and I get it
>> from the mail location and interface to where I like it on the
>> disk and with a proper filename, after that I have to do, e.g.,
>> 'chmod +r photo.jpg'.
>>
>> How would you automate this for certain files, say *.jpg ?
>>
>> So basically if photo.jpg, then chmod +r photo.jpg ?
>>
>> Non-trivial question I guess, so extra hacker points for
>> a solution :)
>
> The "MIME Commands" part of the Gnus manual mentions the
> `gnus-article-mime-part-function' variable (which holds a function) --
> if you look at the description of that, the example usage is very
> close to yours.
>
> What I'm a little confused about is that this would run automatically
> *every time you open the message*. This seems fairly inefficient -- I
> think in normal mail usage it's very common for users to open messages
> multiple times. So whatever function you wrote for that would maybe want
> to check somehow if the images had already been saved.
>
> 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. I've studiously avoided
> learning anything about Gnus' MIME handling over the years.
>
> The other solution that comes to mind is using "pipe to part"

sorry, "pipe part", that was a typo.