can gnus delete mail attachments?

can gnus delete mail attachments?

[Zhiheng Liu]

Hi all, I use nnimap to access my emails.  Sometimes I receive emails
with attachments.  After I save those attachments to separate files, I
want to delete them while keeping only the text parts in the mail
folders.  Can gnus do this?  Thanks!

Zhiheng

Re: can gnus delete mail attachments?

[Stein A. Stromme]

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

| Zhiheng Liu <zhliu@bu.edu> writes:
| 
| > Hi all, I use nnimap to access my emails.  Sometimes I receive emails
| > with attachments.  After I save those attachments to separate files, I
| > want to delete them while keeping only the text parts in the mail
| > folders.  Can gnus do this? 
| 
| If you use `e' to edit the messages, you can just remove the
| attachments.  

Easier to point at the attachment and perform C-o:

    C-o runs the command gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip
       which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `gnus-art'.
    It is bound to C-o, <menu-bar> <mime part> <save and strip>.
    (gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip)

You are prompted for a file name.  Later you can delete the file, or
perhaps use /dev/null as file name directly (untested).  You end up in
edit message mode, so you have to do C-c C-c afterwards to exit that.

Sounds not too hard to write a short piece of code, or even a keyboard
macro, to do all that.

SA
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