Michael Collette wrote: > ludmilla markowska wrote: > > >>Hi all, >>is there a way to save *all* attatchments from Netscapes INBOX to folder >>on the harddisk? >>I have a very big inbox with hundres of pdf files and want them to save >>autuomatically on another place without >>opening all the mails by hand. >> >>tia for your help >>ludmilla >> > > Ludmilla, > > First off, this isn't a Netscape newsgroup. Netscape apps aren't generally > discussed here, just Mozilla. > > Just so happens you struck upon a subject near and dear to me at the > moment. In short, the answer is no. Each attachment must be saved > individually from each message. The same is presently also true for > Mozilla's mail client. > > The reason for this is that the attached files are stored as an actual part > of that message in an encoded format. Neither Netscape nor Mozilla decode > the attachment until you manually go to access it. > > Alternatives to this are being discussed in an earlier thread above if you > are interested in why this is the case.
Related topic: On Windows, when you save the attachment to disk, the file selector always opens in the same place. It would be far more useful if it opened in the last location to which an attachment was saved (at least during the current session).
