Re: MIME parts not saved

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>
>> Please let me make a simple question.  Does it take over one
>> minute when viewing an image by eog?
>
> No, but eog is one of those viewers that monitor the file and update the
> view if it changes.

Exactly.

>> Please see also [2] for the privacy issue.
>> [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/162539

I don't understand the issues there.  Any time I download a pdf file
with my browser, it is saved somewhere on disk (/tmp, by default) and a
viewer is launched.  The browser does no clean-up, and doesn't even hide
the file in a subdirectory of /tmp.  Not to mention the cache of
everything that I view that the browser stores in my home directory.

With Gnus, every attachment that I view is potentially also stored
locally on disk (e.g. if I use a backend that stores files locally), so
why are we worried about another copy stored on disk, as long as it is
readable only by the calling user?

To me, the timer+deletion approach is ugly, unneeded and unreliable.
At the very least, it should be made optional.

Dan