Re: Automatic uploading of attachments to cloud storage as Thunderbird does?

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>>
>>> It also works for non-html emails - it just inserts the link as text:
>>>
>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/n2o8bfpquxz11ev/RMKrug_AcaciaNonSpatial_incFonts.pdf
>>>
>>> No - definitely no html mails wanted here!!!!!
>>
>> So it uploads the file to somewhere, and just inserts a http://foo into
>> a normal text mail?
>
> Yup - and it is doing this automatically when asked.
>
>>
>> That hardly seems like a feature at all.  >"?  But if someone wants to
>> implement this, I'm all for it.
>
> Well - this answers my question: not implemented in gnus.
>
> I definitely do not have the lisp knowledge to do this, but I'll keep it
> in mind.

You´ll need (transparent) en- and decryption with gpg for the files
you´re storing externally, and the MUA needs to constantly verify
whether the files are still available or not and do something
appropriate, like uploading them again, in case they aren´t.  It also
needs to remove the files when the mail expires.  That may require a
background task and a lot of bandwidth, depending on how much mail you
have.

And what would be the use of a feature like this?  Why not just keep the
attachment with the message, right where it belongs?


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