gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip bug
Simon Josefsson
> Oort Gnus v0.04
> GNU Emacs 21.0.106.1 (i386-msvc-nt4.0.1381)
> of 2001-09-25 on CLI119
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> Applying gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip on an attachment works as
> expected. Applying it a second time with the same location for the
> attachment as before overwrites the attachment with the
> message-external-body message. In this case
> gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip should see that it already saved the
> attachment and do nothing.
IMHO I don't see why. Gnus does what you told it to do. You might
have moved or renamed the first saved part in your xterm, and want to
save the MIME part to another file, so you click save and strip again.
Ideally, though, it should _fetch_ the external body and save it
instead of saving the external-body message. Does it just store the
external-body stuff in the message you write it to? That is probably
wrong.
Christoph Conrad
you wrote:
>> In this case gnus-mime-save-part-and-strip should see that it
>> already saved the attachment and do nothing.
> IMHO I don't see why. [...]
You're right, i mean't that.
> Ideally, though, it should _fetch_ the external body and save it
> instead of saving the external-body message.
Yes.
> Does it just store the external-body stuff in the message you
> write it to? That is probably wrong.
Yes.
Best regards,
cu, -cc-
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