On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, David DeSimone wrote: > If an attachment is marked for deletion, it will be deleted, whether or > not you send the mail. > > The reason for this behavior is that Mutt uses the delete feature for > its own internal use. Many of the attachments Mutt creates (such as the > message body itself) are placed in temporary files, and Mutt marks them > for deletion. If you were to decide not to send the mail, you would > still want those temporary files deleted. However, any attachments that > you set the delete flag on, will also be deleted if you quit the > message, since Mutt doesn't know the difference.
If you will excuse the somewhat related "newbie" question, can Mutt be configured automatically to collect incoming attachments as files in a designated directory? Eudora does this, and knows how to append numbers if multiple attachments of the same name come in. For certain types of work, this feature can be very convenient, sparing one the trouble of "saving" each attachment individually. Tom _______________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Thomas Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Birlinghoven Library, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven +49-2241-14-2352 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-14-2619
