[MlMt] Automatically stored attachments

Gary Hull YH82d7dfU at yandex.com
Thu May 29 23:11:13 EDT 2014


Maybe a [Quick Look] [Save] [Save & Delete] choice? But of course many 
people <ahem> use their e-mail mailboxes as longterm file storage areas, 
for things that they 95 percent don't think they need and don't want to 
bother finding a folder to save them in, but they might need and don't 
want to delete permanently.

By the way, the Attachments column in the list shows both attached 
files, and attached images used in HTML e-mail, things like company 
logos. In general I don't care about the latter, and when I'm scanning 
for e-mails with attachments it's just noise to see those listed with 
the paper clip icon.

On 30 May 2014, at 0:58, Alberto Caporro 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
>>
>> --
>> http://disi.unitn.it/~allodi
>> Visiting Durham University. Durham, UK.
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