1329656 - copyself without attachment

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 83040

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, enhancement)

Description

[brendel oliver]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20161208153507

Steps to reproduce:

send and email that has an attachment


Actual results:

the copyself of this email will also contain this attachment. This is really unnecessary storage space wasting. The file is already on my computer, the only thing I need is it#s name and perhaps the path. Now I have either a huge Copyself folder on the IMAP server or I have the copyselfs in a local folder and thus the file twice on my harddisk. I send a lot of files, so this piles up very rapidly


Expected results:

It would be great if there could be an option that copyself messages do not contain the attachment, but only the filename and perhaps the path to the file. 
I have found this problem evoked in different mailing lists / forums, so it seems I'm not alone in this. I'm just astonished that I could not find a corresponding bug/improvement report in bugzilla
Thanks in advance for considering this for a future version.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

This is not easy to do since the message with all its attachments gets shipped out to the SMTP server with all recipients in the message headers. You would require two messages being sent, one with the attachment and one without. Not impossible, but it's not likely to happen.

Comment 3

[brendel oliver]

Actually programs like pine or Pegasus Mail do it this way, so as you said, not impossible. 
Does not soud complicated to me, sending twice, once with attachment as the actual email and once without, but a filename and path written at the end of the email. The same code, just without the bit of attaching a file and with a bit of the path and the filename. 

Thanks anyway for having replied to this request. 

Cheers