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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] "Save All..." function
From:       Scott Kitterman <kde () kitterman ! com>
Date:       2006-07-29 14:06:00
Message-ID: 20060729140703.890895CC597 () mailout00 ! controlledmail ! com
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 09:35:27 -0400 Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> 
wrote:
>On Wednesday 26 July 2006 06:37, John Phillips wrote:
>> I often receive quite a few .jpg files attached to emails, and can't seem
>> to find a "save all as.." function in K-Mail.
>>
>> I can find the "Save As..", but "save all" would really be more 
convenient.
>>
>> Any plans for this feature in the future?
>
>I have "Save all attachments" but it doesn't work as desired.  I tried this
>with an email that had been forwarded as an attachment, and the jpegs were
>attachments to the forwarded email.  Choosing "Save all attachments" saves
>only the forwarded container email as an eml.
>
>I can't find a way to open that in kmail to save the attachments within it.
>When I select open in the file menu, it gives me the file dialog as 
expected
>with the file type filter "Email Message", but eml files are not displayed
>and drag and drop onto kmail doesn't work either.  If I right click the 
file,
>I am offered the option to open it with Thunderbird or "Open with...".
>Choosing the latter, I try to open with kmail, and I get a new email 
composer
>window with the eml as an attachment.
>
>kmail 1.91
>kontact 1.2
>kde 3.5.2
>
I have noticed in the and other contexts that when an attached message is 
opened it appears to continue to be treated by Kmail as an attached object 
of the parent message, rather than a full fledged message in its own right.

I think this is the issue underlying your "Save All" difficulty.  I suspect 
that if you did some research on the broader impacts of this design 
approach you might have a better shot at motivating change.

I wonder if the object model will be different for KDE 4?

Scott K
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