189392 - Option to save attachments in a directory, not together with the message

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 9309

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, enhancement)

Description

[Jochen Roemling]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Before I switched to Linux, I used Eudora as a Mail Client for Windows. For my
purposes, Mozilla Mail can do the same, so I don't miss it very much. 
But there was one feature that I would like to see in Mozilla Mail too: 
Eudora stores its attachments in a seperate directoy "Eudora\attach" and does
not save the original encoded version in the Mailbox-File. I like this because
you could then quickly access the attachment using Konqueror without seeking
through the mails and finding the one with the attachment. And as a side effect
this keeps your Mailbox files small and surely improves performance.
Yeah, of course you can detach the file and delete it from the message, but why
not do this automatically? 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Sam Katz]

I think this is important, because it allows antivirus scanners to easily
automatically (via general realtime scanners) or manually (via user request)
scan attatchments a user may recieve via Mozilla Mail, even if they don't have
e-mail virus scanners, which are intrusive anyway. Many e-mail virus scanners
that do exist may not be aware of Mozilla, and even if they support Mozilla's
industry standard .mbx format, they still may not support it fully.

It also allows users to find attachments when they are searching their hard
disk.. a typical newbie approach. (My grandfather once when he recieved an ICQ
message fired up his e-mail client.. it happens.)

Sam

Comment 2

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9309 ***

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified dup.