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Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> I'd prefer Gnus to save it as /tmp/emmXYZZY/etc/passwd instead (of
> course removing all "../" in the filename for security), then I could
> "cp -r /tmp/emmXYZZY/* /" if I wanted to.

Uhm...  No, I don't think that would be of much actual use -- I can't
imagine someone ever doing that.  Well, if we had a save-all-parts
command, it might be more realistic, actually.  Hm.  Er.  Hm.  Does
anyone ever send a multipart/mixed message that contains an entire
directory hierarchy?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen