218261 - complete separate handling of attachments

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2920

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, enhancement)

Description

[Stefan Schelm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)

This is no bug or crash, rather a suggestion.
I would like the mozilla mail clients to be able to treat attachements and their
respective mail independently (like e.g. Eudora).
My last Netscape mail account was reaching 400 MB when I thought I had a
problem. Problem was that most mails I trashed vanished in the GUI but where
still in the actual files including the infile attachements. Not only that but
some messages were actually saved more than once.
After a switch to Eudora and a bit of cleaning up, I was at 4MB.
I have no idea about the mozilla architecture, so I don't know how diffficult it
would be to incorperate this feature.
I would like to move to Thunderbird as my standard mail application ^__^
But without that feature...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

this needs duped against mozilla /mailnews / attachments

Comment 2

[Adam Macznik]

> this needs duped against mozilla /mailnews / attachments

You mean like bug 2920 - a general MailNews bug about detaching attachments? ;)

Comment 3

[Doug Wright]

per comment #2

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