Re: Saving vs deleting attachments

[Julian Bradfield]

On 2021-07-09, Robert Marshall <robert@capuchin.co.uk> wrote:
> The keybindings for saving and deleting attachments are rather close on
> the keyboard C-c C-s vs C-c C-d. On a couple of occasions I've pressed
> the wrong one. Undo doesn't appear to work on this to repair the damage.
>
> Also easy to do - as my workflow is usually save followed by delete 
> attachment.

Hm. If you save attachments, why delete them? Or if you delete them,
why save them?

> Have others found a good way of protecting oneself here - maybe a y-n
> question on deleting (though easy to type y mindlessly !) Or maybe I
> should just forget there are keybindings in both these cases!

I use the universal protection of keeping a backup copy of all
incoming mail.