Re: Fwd: E-mail attachments and local names

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

dsg@mitre.org (David S. Goldberg) writes:

> I thought that too.  Then I tried it :-) Unfortunately, the name tag
> gets copied to the Content-Type part rather than Content-Disposition,
> where the filename tag goes.  The latter gets preference for the
> suggested filename when saving.  The former just shows up as a label
> in the button.  What's needed is either an option that says if both
> name and filename are specified in MML, then after using filename to
> load the content, the filename tag in the Content-Disposition header
> gets the value of the name tag; or, invent a new tag if overloading
> name is a bad idea.  I started to make a pass at doing just that
> (called `filesuggestion' for lack of a better idea) yesterday.  I'll
> post a patch once its ready and I've had a chance to try it out.

I think if people compose a Word document called
They-Are-Going-To-Go-Broke-If-They-Sign-This-Contact.doc and send it
off, they deserve having the recipient seeing what the name of the
document is.  (And in the case of Word files, the name of the file is
also stored inside the file itself.  Ha!)

But, sure, adding a new parameter -- displayfilename, for instance --
would be OK.  If you send me a patch, I'll apply it.

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