Where does Mutt save attachment?
By default, mutt
saves attachments to whatever the current directory was when you started mutt
.
If you want to save to a particular directory, cd
to that directory before starting mutt
:
cd mypreferreddirectory
mutt
mutt
also allows you to define many powerful macros. To define a macro "W" for saving to a particular directory, put the following in your ~/.muttrc
file:
macro attach W <save-entry><kill-line>/home/gawron/attachments/
For more on this, see the mutt FAQ.
After you hit s
and before you hit Enter
, mutt proposes a default file name (which is the original name of the attachment). At this point, you can provide mutt with a new directory (and with a different file name).
So if mutt proposes attach.ment
, just fill in the path you need the file saved to, ~/your/desired/folder/attach.ment
and hit Enter
.
If you want to save attachments always in the same folder, John1024 describes how to do it.
There's no config option (AFAIK) but here's a simple work around.
The following alias will save your files into an "attachments" folder in your home directory:
alias mutt='cd $HOME/attachments;/usr/bin/mutt;cd -'
Add it to your .bashrc or .bash_profile.