Re: [PLUG] Mutt replies as attachments?

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

On Saturday 15 June 2002 09:18 pm, John Lavin wrote:
> Arthur S. Alexion said:
> > fwiw, your emails do not come up as attachments in my copy of
> > eudora 5.x, win or Palm.  was it a setting on the individual
> > recipient's end?
>
> Didn't really investigate too much with his settings.  I felt
> confident that it was a local thing with him and dropped it.  Good to
> know that your eudora doesn't show my replies as attachments.  If
> there's interest, I could ask him..
>
The reason he probably brought it up is the annoying way that Eudora 
handles all incoming attachments.  Most clients I've tried, when 
recognizing attachments as such, nonetheless keep them in MIME code 
though they may hide the code and show them as an icon in the body or a 
link at bottom.

Eudora decodes them upon receipt and stores them in a specified 
directory.  This behavior seems to have one advantage in that you can 
save the body of the message while discarding the space hogging 
attachment.  This is not often possible with the mail clients that 
retain the attachments as code until the user explicitly acts to decode 
them.  These latter types usually retain the code with the message even 
after decoding.  Eudora is similar in that when you act to save an 
attachment, a copy is made from the one in the attachment directory.  
The attachment directory copy remains.  However, you can navigate to 
the attachment directory and delete the attachment from there.  Once 
you do its gone forever since Eudora does not store the MIME code with 
the body.  That benefit aside, it can be annoying having all those 
attachments accumulate that you don't really want.  Especially since 
Eudora often seems to ignore the option to "delete attachments when 
deleting the message".  I frequently have to go in and manually delete 
a ton of signatures from this list.  (That too can get annoying since 
-- even though it is the fault of my own software -- I generally could 
care less whether you are who you say you are in the context of a list 
like this.)  

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