> How about replacing the attachment with an attachment of type > message/external-body with an access-type of "LOCAL-FILE", as defined in > RFC 2046 > <http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/2046/rfc2046.html#5.2.3>? That > could contain all of the necessary information (a short disclaimer could > go in the attachment's "phantom body").
This looks promising, Timeless seems to favor using message/external-body as well; however, the first stage of work, the work specifically covered by bug 2920, doesn't cover saving and linking to attachments (detaching files from a message), it only covers deleting attachments. But for future reference, to help coordinate some of the discussions here with later work done on saving and linking to attachments, and for clarification... Are attachments part of the body of a message, or are they separate from the body? Can message/external-body be applied to an attachment? Would message/external-body only be useful for saving and linking to attachments (detaching files), or would it also be useful for deleting attachments? Thanks for the input -- Matt Coughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] <remove "sp4mless_" from the e-mail address to reply>
