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Attachments

Attachments

Attachments are listed at the bottom of each message card with filename, size, and an icon based on the file type.

Preview

ActionHow
QuickLook previewClick the attachment, or press Space with it focused
Open in default appDouble-click
SaveRight-click → Save As…, or drag to Finder

QuickLook uses macOS’s built-in preview engine — works for PDFs, images, audio, video, plain text, and any other type with a system QuickLook generator.

Cached prefetch

When you open a thread, Durian fetches each attachment in the background and stores it in a local cache. Subsequent previews are instant.

Cache settings live in config.pkl:

sync {
  attachment_cache { max_size_mb = 100; ttl_days = 7 }
}
  • max_size_mb — total cache size (LRU eviction).
  • ttl_days — discard cached blobs older than this.

The cache is bytes-on-disk only; it never leaves your machine.

Sending attachments

Drag files into a compose window, or click the paperclip icon. Embedded images (paste from clipboard, drag inline into the body) become inline cid: parts; explicit attachments are added as multipart entries.

Total size is shown in the compose toolbar — providers like Gmail reject messages over ~25 MB.