Subject: attachments and replying

From: John Stumbles <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 18:55:18 GMT

(I seem to remember something about this coming up here recently, but I
can't see it in the last few hundred messages I've scanned....)

If I receive a message with an attachment (e.g. from David L Miller with a
sample .newsrc) and want to reply ("thanks David, that works") I don't
want to return the attachment - can I remove it? 

I can delete the Attchmnt: line in the header, but does that do it? I
tried that and found that when I postponed the message I was warned that
the attachment would not be saved - suggesting that it was still there,
and I'd just deleted the attachment comment; but also suggesting a
workaround - to postpone and then resume the reply (assuming I hadn't
already postponed another composition!). 

John Stumbles                                       [email-masked]
University of Reading                                              0734 318435
Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AF, UK
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 10:58:08 -0800 (PST)

John,

When you delete the last attachment, Pine does not realize that it should 
"downgrade" the message type to a simple message.  We will correct this 
in a future release of Pine.

Thanks for the report!

--DLM

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