Variable: rmail-mime-attachment-dirs-alist

rmail-mime-attachment-dirs-alist is a customizable variable defined in rmailmm.el.gz.

Value

(("text/.*" "~/Documents")
 ("image/.*" "~/Pictures")
 (".*" "~/Desktop" "~" "/tmp/"))

Documentation

Default directories to save attachments of various types into.

This is an alist with elements of the form (REGEXP DIR ...). The first item is a regular expression matching a content-type. The remaining elements are directories, in order of decreasing preference. The first directory that exists is used.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 23.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/mail/rmailmm.el.gz
(defcustom rmail-mime-attachment-dirs-alist
  `(("text/.*" "~/Documents")
    ("image/.*" "~/Pictures")
    (".*" "~/Desktop" "~" ,temporary-file-directory))
  "Default directories to save attachments of various types into.
This is an alist with elements of the form (REGEXP DIR ...).
The first item is a regular expression matching a content-type.
The remaining elements are directories, in order of decreasing preference.
The first directory that exists is used."
  :type '(alist :key-type regexp :value-type (repeat directory))
  :version "23.1")