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
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