[MlMt] Automatically stored attachments

Alberto Caporro acaporro at gmail.com
Thu May 29 11:58:31 EDT 2014


+1

My feeling is that attachments should be removed as soon as they are not
used anymore.

Maybe a configurable option.?

Best regards,
Alberto
 On May 29, 2014 5:09 PM, "Luca Allodi" <luca.allodi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All, Benny,
>
> 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).
>
> Is there a way to avoid this? Is this an issue for other users as well or
> is it only me?
>
> Best,
>
>      Luca
>
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