12 - Handling incoming attachments - Background Information
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Incoming attachments are presented in the form of normal file objects arranged in a separate folder that is created when the mail message file is opened.

Since the attachments are normal OS/2 file objects, you can perform all the usual WPS (or VIO) file operations on them. You can copy or move them using drag and drop, or a 'copy' or 'move' command issued from a command-line, and you can open them by double-clicking, or by dragging them to a program object.

In this case, the attachment is a GIF file. Double-clicking the file object will launch the default GIF file processor (on my system, PM View 2000) to display the graphics file's contents.

Note that closing the message file will also close the associated attachments folder, unless files were changed or added to the folder. Not also that with the 'CleanupTemp' setting in the 'settings.txt' file set to 'yes', the attachments folder will be deleted next time the mail folders are opened on the desktop (by calling RexxMail with the '/Open' switch), regardless of any changes to its contents.


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