On Wed, 2021-04-28 at 00:41 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 15:16 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> From the Help:
>
> You can download images from emails sent by your contacts. To do
> this, go to Edit ▸ Preferences ▸ Mail Preferences ▸ HTML
> Messages
> ▸
> Loading Images. Enable the Load images only in messages from
> contacts option.
>
> However I'm not sure that will do what you want (I don't have HTML
> enabled by default).
No, different application. And they're not HTML emails, and they've
attached the files in a simple manner to plain text posts that
Evolution won't show them without you doing something.
Imagine you have a device that takes a photo whenever it detects
movement, and emails it to you. You receive a plethora of emails,
with
masses of false positives, and you have to step through each one to
see
each image. But, wait, it's not that easy. You also have to click
in
each email to see the picture.
I had considered batch stripping all the JPEGs from all the emails
(they, at least, have unique filenames). But Evolution doesn't want
to
let me select a bunch of emails and download all attachments in one
go.
I'd have to parse the emails externally.
Feel free to file a Request For Enhancement, but would still make sense
to ask on the Evo list. There may be a workaround I'm not aware of and
you would get some feedback.
poc