Don't rename attachments when forwarding

Don't rename attachments when forwarding

[John Robot]

Hello,

I've noticed that, when forwarding (C-c C-f) a mail to other
people, the attached files are renamed into something like
`attXXX...' where XXX is a number.

How is it possible to get rid of that feature (under Gnus
5.10.6)?

,----[ Extract of my .gnus ]
|
| ;; when forwarding mail, chop off these headers
| (setq message-forward-ignored-headers
|       (concat "^\\("
|               "Content-Class\\|Delivered-To\\|Importance\\|In-Reply-To\\|"
|               "Lines\\|Message-Id\\|Organization\\|Received\\|References\\|"
|               "Return-Path\\|Return-Receipt-To\\|Sender Thread-Index\\|"
|               "Thread-Topic\\|User-Agent\\|X.*"
|               "\\):"))
| 
| ;; subject of article with 'Fwd:' prepended to it, for forwarded messages
| (setq message-make-forward-subject-function 'message-forward-subject-fwd)
| 
| ;; forwarded messages will just be copied inline to the new message
| (setq message-forward-as-mime nil)
`----

Best regards & Many thanks,
  John

-- 
John Robot

Re: Don't rename attachments when forwarding

[John Robot]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

>> I've noticed that, when forwarding (C-c C-f) a mail to other
>> people, the attached files are renamed into something like
>> `attXXX...' where XXX is a number.
>
>> How is it possible to get rid of that feature (under Gnus
>> 5.10.6)?
>
> I think it is never Gnus' fault.  I heard that attachments like
> `attXXX...' are made by outlook.  For example, when a mail body
> consists of a text part, an attachment and a signature, the last
> text part becomes so.  Probably, hasn't such a thing occurred in
> the recipient?

I do not think as I was as well a user of Outlook, before, and
we (my colleagues or me) never got such funny names for
attachments.

Now that I've upgraded to a better e-mail and newsreader, my
colleagues receive such attachments from me. So, it must be
clearly on my side (not especially Gnus, but maybe my .gnus
file)...

Best regards,
  John

-- 
John Robot