Peter Lairo wrote:

> One of my biggest problems with attachments (mostly jpg's) is that 
> when  displayed inline, they become nearly impossible to save to disk. 

huh? They are listed in the attachments button menu, just as normal 
attachments.

> I think that when a filename is doubleclicked (what most novice users 
> will do), a **dialogue** should appear asking whether to save or open 
> the file. 

We should follow the setting the the Helper Apps prefs 
(Save/Display/Ask) here, I think.

> The attachment button should remain too, for the  many users who 
> haven't realized that they have a right mouse button. 

I disagree. That's what we have the normal menus for.

BTW: What happens, if I sent an attachment with MIME-type image/tiff, 
but filename extension ".txt"? It should trigger the handler for TIFF 
files, but that should be blatantly obvious to the user before the fact.

> I don't think the filesize is so important, because one can infer it  
> from the size/lines collumn in the header pane.

No, not if there are multiple files. Also, what if I hided that column?

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