On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:37:13PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > Tim Gray wrote: > > What exactly does the <get-attachment> command do? The manual > > states 'get a temporary copy of an attachment' but it's unclear to > > me what the use case might be. > > It looks like it takes an existing attachment (e.g. ~/foo.txt) and makes > a copy of it to your $tmpdir. The attachment is then replaced with your > tmpdir copy (/tmp/foo.txt). > > Perhaps if you wanted to grab a snapshot of a file that may change, you > would use this command. Others may have a better ideas for the use > case.
It might also be useful if you want to edit the attachment before sending without modifying the original file. An example would be to remove private information from a log or settings file. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
