precise reference to attachments in messages

[aa755]

here is a sample entry in my messages.txt generated using
./sigtop export-messages messages.txt:

Conversation: Gunjan
Type: outgoing
To: Gunjan
Sent: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 22:12:15 -0400
Attachment: image.png (image/png, 140855 bytes)

how do I figure out which image this image.png is referring to? the image.png in the attachments directory is not the one that I sent in this message. But the attachments directory has many files of the form image-n.png for n 1,2,3...50 and I guess the correct image is one of them.
Is there a way to have the messages export precisely specify which image/document in attachments is being referred to?

[tbvdm]

I guess the correct image is one of them.

Yes. If you have multiple attachments with the same filename, sigtop adds a sequence number.

Is there a way to have the messages export precisely specify which image/document in attachments is being referred to?

That's an interesting one. Currently there isn't. I could add an option to set the modification time of attachment files to the time they were sent. Would that help you? For now, as a workaround, you could try to identify the right attachment file by looking at the file size (140855 bytes in your case).