Re: pre-announce exmh-2.7.2

>>>Justin Mason said:

 > > Mops -> More -> Save/Extract Attachments
 > > which uses exmh-strip to pull attachments into a directory.
 > > By default this is ~/attachments, and there is a MIME
 > > preference to change that.
 > 
 > If that dir doesn't exist, I get a nasty
 > 
 >   no files matched glob pattern "~/attachments"

Hmm - the code has a "file mkdir" in there to ensure the
directory exists.  Oops - I see what the problem is.

 > error :(   might be nicer to create it silently?
 > Once I create that dir, though, it doesn't seem to work -- not sure
 > why.
 > 
 > Running exmh-strip directly from the command-line on a test mail
 > with an image/gif attachment, I get:
 > 
 > : jm 1100...; ./exmh-strip ~/Mail/sent/252 ~/attachments
 > MH anno forw
 > MH inplace forw
 > MH anno repl
 > MimeTypes text/plain text/richtext text/enriched multipart      
multipart/di
     gest multipart/parallel multipart/alternative       
application/octet-stre
     am message/external-body message/rfc822   text/rfc822-headers 
message/samp
     le message/news image application/pgp text/pgp multipart/x-tioga 
text/x-ht
     ml text/html  application/x-shell-script      audio/basic 
audio/x-sunaudio
      application/x-suncalendar  message/delivery-status 
message/disposition-no
     tification        application/x-pgp-message       application/pgp-keys 

     application/fv-infohaus         multipart/signed multipart/encrypted   
 mu
     ltipart/report        application/x-url       application/msword 
applicati
     on/pdf      application/postscript  application/x-frame 
application/x-fram
     emaker    application/x-interleaf application/msword      
application/x-lo
     tus application/x-lotus-123     application/x-wordmarc 
application/x-wordp
     erfect
 > Loaded Img version 1.3
 > 
 > Then it exits with a code of 0, but there's nothing in ~/attachments.
 > (does it rely on a "Content-Disposition" header being present?  the test
 > doesn't have that, being sent with mhn.)

It looks for a filename parameter in the content-type header.
If you can think of ways to make exmh-strip more clever about
chosing names, let me know.

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