Hi Severin, On 05/01/06, Severin Crisp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where does Mail store attachments?
Are you using Panther or Tiger, and are you using an IMAP or POP account? There is no such thing as an e-mail attachment -- it's just a convenient illusion. With POP messages, Apple Mail tends to store mail messages in their "original, encoded format" (i.e., in the exact format in which they arrived). This means that the attachment illusion has not yet occurred. That is, the attachment is actually an integrated part of the whole mail message. When you delete a message, the attachment will therefore disappear also. With an IMAP account, you mail server can provide the ability to download MIME-type attachments separately. In this caes, Apple Mail stores the "partial contents" separately (i.e., one partial file for the encoded "message body" and another partial file for the encoded attachment). In either case, there are two locations to look in (although this will depend on your version of Mail and whether you are using POP or IMAP0. One location is "Home > Library > Mail Downloads" (where decoded attachments are stored as standard double-clickable files) and also "Home > Library > Mail > [acct folder] > Message > [...emlxparts]" (where the unencoded versions are stored). I can't remember how "Delete unedited downloads" works. You may find the decoded attachments have been deleted from "Mail Downloads" but still exist in original encoded form inside "Mail > [acct folder] > Message". James
