[Linux-disciples] Saving many attachments in mutt

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Hmm. I would just save them all to the current directory and then move
them. :).  But that probably isn't what you're looking for.

I think you'd need a little MIME filter that you could pipe the message
into from mutt which would extract the files into a directory that you
requested.  I don't know that such a program exists, but it would be
pretty easy to code in python or perl.

Check out mimedefang and see if you can warp it to do what you want.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 11:14:33AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Someone sends me 30 file attachments to an email, which I
> read in mutt. Right now my fastest way of saving all those
> attachments is
> 
> 1) quit out of mutt
> 2) go into the directory where I intend to save those files
> 3) reopen mutt and return to the message with all the
>    attachments
> 4) tag all the attachments I want to save
> 5) type ';s' to apply the 'save' command to all tagged
>    messages.
> 
> There must be a faster way. After step 5), mutt loops
> through file by file and asks me where I want to save each
> one. In virtue of step 2), I don't need to specify a
> destination directory, but I still have to press enter 30
> times to save 30 files.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to speed this up?
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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