Re: rewrite functions

["Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)" <YAIRFR@amdocs.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> "Yair Friedman (Jerusalem)" <YAIRFR@amdocs.com> writes:
> 
>> The variable mm-file-name-rewrite-functions is a List of functions used
>> for rewriting file names of MIME parts.
>>
>> Currently it works only on the filename part.  However, one might want
>> to apply some of the functions such as 'upper' on the full path. 
> 
> All of the saving functions generally ignore the supplied path -- they
> usually refer to local paths on the sender's machine, so they aren't
> very useful.  Not ignoring the path is also a security risk -- if
> you're reading mail as root, and you get something that's called
> "/etc/passwd", the MUA would be doing you a disservice if it gave you
> that as the default name to save.
> 
> So, I think the current method is fine.

Oh, but I need rewrite functions for the paths Gnus supplies - mostly
for the dumb applications that don't understand the "x:/path/file.ext"
syntax in mm-display-external, and possibly in mm-save-part.