Re: Saving attachments with a leading dot

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Wed, Sep 24 2003, Jesper Harder wrote:

> RFC 2183 says:

> |    +    Sending the file to a pipe (e.g., "| sh").

Emacs happily created »| xless« when trying to save such an
attachment.  The content isn't sent to a pipe.

[...]
> Gnus doesn't prevent creating startup files.  We could:
>
> · Strip leading dots from file names, or
>
> · Set the default value of `mm-default-directory' to somewhere
>   (where?), so attachments aren't saved in ~.

If we take a different directory, we need to make sure it exists and
create it otherwise.  (Personally, I don't like programs that clutter
up my ~/ with new directories.)  Using `message-directory' (default:
"~/Mail/") could cause problems; at least if the file looks similar to
an mbox file: `nnfolder-directory' defaults to `message-directory'
therefore `nnfolder-generate-active-file' would create bogus groups.
Subdirs under ~/Mail could conflict e.g. with nnml, I guess.

How about only changing the default of
`mm-file-name-rewrite-functions' from `nil' to, say
`mm-file-name-rfc-2183'?  `mm-file-name-rfc-2183' could do the
replacements (or offer them?).

Bye, Reiner.
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