192963 - Strip off attatchements for sent mail and insert link instead

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2920

(MailNews Core :: Attachments, enhancement)

Description

[boris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Usually attatchments are available on the own computer and are only duplicated
in the SENT-mail folder.
Why not include a button that strips off the attatched file and inserts a
reference to the URL of this file instead - this would save much space and time!
(This feature could also be an option for moving a message to the trash folder...)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
now all the data is saved

Expected Results:  
optional button to omit saving of attatchments locally

Comment 1

[Matthew Richardson]

This feature could also exist as a global setting - i.e once selected in the
Mail/News settings it will not save attachments to the SENT-MAIL folder.

Comment 2

[Colin Higgs]

Stripping attachments would be a very useful feature in general (not just for
sent mail). I am responsible for a number of users, many of whom often fill up
their quotas on the IMAP server by retaining emails with attachments. Many of
these emails are kept as a record of the correspondance, though the attachments
are no longer required since they have been saved to disk if important.

An "archive" function for emails, where the mail is stored but the attachment is
stripped out would be useful, possibly extending to the idea of archive folders,
where attachments are automatically stripped is mail is moved into the folder.
The feature requested by the original poster would then be emergent by treating
"sent" as an archive folder.

Comment 3

[BorgHive]

Great Idea,

However, I would like this as a function on selected e-mails:
"Strip Attachments"
A good place to put that function would be in File-> Attachments

Regards,

Xyloc

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Note that there is a patch in (slow) progress at the dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2920 ***