633182 - Need ability to automatically save attachments with name identifying original email

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[John Antell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/9.0.597.94 Safari/534.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7

The GMail Conversation View Add-on is very good. You can use it to save an entire email conversation in chronological order with quotes suppressed, as a PDF file, so that you can use it later in e.g. a report.

In order to fully document the conversation you need all the attachments and you need to be able to documents which attachment was attached to which message within the conversation. 

For example, an attachment named DRAFT REPORT might be sent as an attachment by person A at 10.30 on 2009 02 22. Person B might modify it and send the modified version to A at 12.15 on 2009 02 23. Then at 13.30 the same day person A might modify it and sent it to B.

It would be very useful to be able to automatically save attachments with filenames showing which message the attachment was attached to - e.g.

 2009 02 22 10.30 DRAFT REPORT
 2009 02 23 12.15 DRAFT REPORT
 2009 02 23 13.30 DRAFT REPORT

 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[John Antell]

I have since discovered that there is an Add-on which does this - Attachment Extractor.

However that add on is not available for Thunderbird 3.3. as far as I know.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I have since discovered that there is an Add-on which does this - Attachment
> Extractor.
> 
> However that add on is not available for Thunderbird 3.3. as far as I know.

3.3 is not released yet.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Protzenko [:protz]]

Wondering how relevant that is. I don't really have an opinion, and I'm afraid you're having a very specific use case, which might not represent everyone's opinions. CCing clarkbw (for ui) and jim (for attachments) who might have opinions about this.

As a side note, if you're running Thunderbird 3.3, then you should definitely be using Thunderbird Conversations (formerly Gmail Conversation View), as the new version is way better than the old one. If you're running 3.3a3pre, use http://jonathan.xulforum.org/files/gcv-nightlies/201102071420-master.xpi, otherwise if you're using 3.3a2, use http://jonathan.xulforum.org/files/gcv-nightlies/201102061435-master.xpi