Re: How do attachments in message-mode work?

[Robert Pluim]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I know that attachments in message-mode are just inserted strings of the
> form like
>
> "<hash part type="image/jpeg" filename="..." disposition=attachment>
> <hash /part>"
>
> where "hash" is an actual hash character.
>
> Where can I find the code responsible for parsing them?  I'd like to
> know whether I could add another attribute (like "type", "filename", or
> "disposition") and be sure it is going to be ignored.  (I want to hack
> adding attachments so that the size is displayed along with other data.
> I'd like also to change faces a bit, so that the values of the
> attributes are more prominent, but I do not expect any troubles there.)

It's all in mml.el, specifically mml-parse-1. Good luck.

Robert