On Sat, Jul 10 2021, Julian Bradfield <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2021-07-09, Robert Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: >> The keybindings for saving and deleting attachments are rather close on >> the keyboard C-c C-s vs C-c C-d. On a couple of occasions I've pressed >> the wrong one. Undo doesn't appear to work on this to repair the damage. >> >> Also easy to do - as my workflow is usually save followed by delete >> attachment. > > Hm. If you save attachments, why delete them? Or if you delete them, > why save them? > Because I want to put them in one place and an email folder may not be the best place esp if there is little in the email apart from a (in some cases) humungous attachment. I get 'magazines' via email and they feel better saved in a local filesystem directory (esp if the email sub/attachment is not well labelled). Because there's an editable document as the attachment that I will change and then do things with and the original is of not much interest >> Have others found a good way of protecting oneself here - maybe a y-n >> question on deleting (though easy to type y mindlessly !) Or maybe I >> should just forget there are keybindings in both these cases! > > I use the universal protection of keeping a backup copy of all > incoming mail. > I tend to like keeping things off the mail server (though I can backup both local and the mail server), though a local folder works - but see above! Robert -- Robert Marshall twitter: @rajm
