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Attaching a file with a new name in a message

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Abdo Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 34654 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34654: Attaching a file with a new name in a message
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 16:13:05 -0400

Abdo Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="old-name.pdf"
>
> Even when I set the 'recipient-filename' and 'name' properties.
> Looking through the source, it seems that line 904 in mml.el always
> sets the Content-Disposition filename to the original filename,
> disregarding the 'recipient-filename' and 'name' properties.
>
> Is this intentional? Is there another to achieve what I want?

It looks like the documented recipient-filename functionality was never
actually implemented?  I grepped through the sources for
"recipient-filename" and found nothing.  Weird.

Anyway, I've now added the functionality to Emacs 27.1.

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