235823 - feature to delete only attachments of incoming mails, but leave email text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2920

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Frank]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

I would like to switch from Outlook to Mozilla/Thunderbird Mail. However, at the
moment I can't because I need an important feature that Outlooks offers:
deleting attachents of received (or sent) email messages without deleting the
message itself. In our company we receive huge amounts of mail with big
attachments. Recently, the Outlook-Box of my colleague crashed at the 2 Gigabyte
limit. In the business enviroment you can't convince all your partners to use
FTP instead. I always save the attachments and delete it from the mail, so
mailbox size is not much more than 100MB. The mail texts I usually want to keep,
because they often contain interesting facts. So, at the moment I can't use the
Mozilla mail this way - keeping the mailbox free from attachments and leaving
mail texts in the folder. That's an important feature. Work-arounds like saving
the mail texts to individual files etc. are not comfortable. It should be as
easy as in Outlook with just a few mouse-clicks. So I have to use Outlook until
this feature is offered by Mozilla/Thunderbird. Please think about it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. reveive email message with attachment
2 [details] [diff] [review]. try to remove the attachment

Actual Results:  
not possible

Expected Results:  
offer a context menu entry to delete attachment

Comment 1

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

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