Detect Forgotten Attachments

Introduction

The “forgotten-attachment” feature provides a new setting for NeoMutt that alerts the user if the message body contains a certain keyword but there are no attachments added. This is meant to ensure that the user does not forget to attach a file after promising to do so in the mail. The attachment keyword will not be scanned in text matched by $quote_regex.

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Subject: Forgotten attachment warning prompt

Description: The NeoMutt screen showing the abort prompt that appears when the user tries to send a message containing an attachment keyword (e.g., “see attached”) but no files are attached. The prompt at the bottom of the screen asks whether to abort sending.

Highlights: The warning prompt triggered by $abort_noattach, showing the quadoption question that lets the user choose to abort or proceed with sending the message without an attachment.

Variables

Name	Type	Default
abort_noattach_regex	regular expression	\\<(attach|attached|attachments?)\\>
abort_noattach	quadoption	no

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# Example NeoMutt config file for the forgotten-attachment feature.

# The 'forgotten-attachment' feature provides a new setting for NeoMutt that
# alerts the user if the message body contains a certain regular expression but there are
# no attachments added. This is meant to ensure that the user does not forget
# to attach a file after promising to do so in the mail.

# Ask if the user wishes to abort sending if $abort_noattach_regex is found in the
# body, but no attachments have been added
# It can be set to:
#    "yes"     : always abort
#    "ask-yes" : ask whether to abort
#    "no"      : send the mail
set abort_noattach = no
# Search for the following regular expression in the body of the email
# English: attach, attached, attachment, attachments
set abort_noattach_regex = "\\<attach(|ed|ments?)\\>"
# Nederlands:
# set abort_noattach_regex = "\\<(bijvoegen|bijgevoegd|bijlage|bijlagen)\\>"
# Deutsch:
# set abort_noattach_regex = "\\<(anhängen|angehängt|anhang|anhänge|hängt an)\\>"
# Français:
# set abort_noattach_regex = "\\<(attaché|attachés|attache|attachons|joint|jointe|joints|jointes|joins|joignons)\\>"

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See Also

• The Attachment Menu

• The Attachment Menu key mappings