On 29 May 2014, at 17:09, Luca Allodi wrote:
All the attachments "quicklook'd" in MailMate are stored in
~/Library/Application Support/Mailmate/Attachments.
Depending on correspondence volume, this may stack up to several GBs.
More importantly, confidential attachments to (GPG-)encrypted e-mails
are stored there as well until the email is (if ever) deleted. This is
an insecure behaviour that some may desire not to happen.
I'm not sure whether this is a common issue, but in general I see the
"Attachments" folder as a temporary directory, not as a permanent
storage location (especially for encrypted attachments).
Yes, this folder is a cache which is unfortunately not as temporary as
it should be.
Is there a way to avoid this? Is this an issue for other users as well
or is it only me?
No, this is how it works and it is not (yet) configurable. There are
several things I would like to change for the Attachments folder and
deleting old items is one of them — perhaps based on how long ago the
corresponding message has been viewed (and this could then be
configurable). Maybe encrypted attachments should have a separate
setting.
But this is not trivial. Two potential problems:
* MailMate might delete an attachment which is currently being viewed by
a different application (in practice this might not be a problem if
deletion is done long after the email has been viewed).
* The user might have made changes to the cached attachment (I could
check this before deletion).
I guess one easy option could be to offer to save attachments in a
temporary folder which is deleted when restarting the computer, but I
doubt that would be sufficient for you.
--
Benny
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