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Re: Faking filenames for attachments
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Tim Landscheidt |
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Re: Faking filenames for attachments |
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Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:44:30 +0000 |
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Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> wrote:
> Are there other options that I have missed?
> You can symlink the desired name to the actual name before attaching.
> How and when to remove the symlink is another problem, however...
Yes, but that's effectively what I have reverted to :-). As
I want to use the same filename for different files I needed
to create directories, though.
> I'm curious: What kind of files do you want to fake their names?
My current trigger were CVs; I usually emphasize some as-
pects more than others depending on the recipient, and I
don't want to name them in an obvious way.
Another use case I can think of is automagically include
versioning information in filenames. I. e., if I attach
source code A twice as in commit X and Y, use filenames A-X
and A-Y so that the recipient doesn't have to discern be-
tween "this A" and "that A".
I think for a lasting solution I'll revamp MML to accept pa-
rameters fake-filename & Co.
Tim