Re: save multiple attachments at one time

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Steve Hubert wrote:

>> >  When you are viewing the message or in the message index type
>> > 
>> >    E    Export
>> >    ^P   AllParts
>> >    filename
>> > 
>> >  The message will be saved in filename and the attachments will be in the
>> >  directory filename.d.

I was not aware of this feature, thanks for pointing it out.

> This saves all attachments. There is no way to save a subset of 
> attachments.

A partial workaround could possibly be to do V(iew) then D(eleting) some 
attachments, then S(aving) the message to a separate temporary folder, and 
doing the E(xport) ^P from there.

I guess the unwanted (deleted) attachments will be saved as dummy 
placeholder text files. The way delete-attachment works when saving is to 
replace them with a text-only short attachment like :

   [ The following attachment was DELETED when this message was saved:    ]
   [ A Text/PLAIN segment of about 140 bytes,                             ]
   [    described as "nuovo"                                              ]

or

The following attachment was sent,
but NOT saved in the Fcc copy:
     A Text/PLAIN (Name="newswire.density") segment of about 756 bytes.

Unfortunately (!) the only saved messages with more than 1 attachment I 
can find in my folder are just of such type, because I have configured my 
pine not to save sent attachments, and usually I manually save 
attachments to external files, then delete them before saving the message.

So my test cannot be exhaustive :-)

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