Re: Dealing with attachments

Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> How are you dealing with this? Do you have a separate filesystem tree
    >> to file the attachments?

    > What I do is treat the mail store as the canonical repository.  When I
    > need an attachment, I decode it right then and usually store it in /tmp
    > where I can view or possibly print it.  If I need to modify that file
    > long term then it gets filed away whereever such files go.  I can't say
    > it's ideal but it works for me.

Same for me.
/var/tmp
and then I go delete /var/tmp/[0-9]*.{various-extensions} when I am bored.

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