262438 - option: save attachments or link to att. with e-mail in sent folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2920

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[boris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

It is common that files which are attached to an e-mail are stored locally and
it makes no sense to sve them in the sent folder.
Instead it would make sense to save a link to the attachment optionally. - This
might be not a very save procedure to keep the data consistent within the
mailing system, but commonly local files are the better way to store the data
then e-mails.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. New email
2. Attach file
3. send file
4. file is sent and copied to the sent file folder if that option is turned on

Actual Results:  
the file is saved together with the e-mail

Expected Results:  
An option should be available on the toolbar to include the attachment in the
sent-folder copy.


There has been much talk about removing attachments in the received and sent
e-mail. Is there any intention to get a system to store and find data quickly?
The usage of e-mail as a storage medium might be universal and well
transferable, but on the other hand it is slow and bulky.
Is there a project out there that wants to meet these demands (other then
promises of MS to make LonghornII the OS where you can easily find information...)?

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Please don't comment in the dupe.

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