[sylpheed:31971] Re: Feature request: Zip/Unzip of attachments

[Frank Lanitz]

Hi,

Zitat von Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:

> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:17:26 +0100, Frank Lanitz <linux at partysoke.de>
> wrote:
>
>> > And there are quite a few that refuse .EXE attachments, but not ZIP
>> > attachments.
>> >
>> > And some have size limits that zipping can help avoid.
>> >
>> > I like the idea...
>>
>> Since I'm sending a lot of plain text files, it would decrease the
>> size of some mails by factor 10 or even more.
> But Sylpheed shouldn't only zip the files rather it should provide the
> ability to pass the attached files to an external program(zip, tar,
> gzip, graphical archive manager, something else) and depending on
> external program's output it should act on the attached files.
> When only adding the zip possibility, people will come and ask for tar,
> the next one ask for some kind of md5sum or whatever.

I was only thinking about a checkbox at attachment window to zip each  
file as wished. No more other functinality. No external graphical tool.

Frank