[MlMt] Automatically stored attachments

Paula Coelho paulartcoelho at gmail.com
Thu May 29 12:16:12 EDT 2014


+1 here as well 
Paula


> On 29/05/2014, at 12:58, Alberto Caporro <acaporro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +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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