Closed Bug 290016 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Need to Remove attached files from mail file (Thunderbird 1.0.2)

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 2920

People

(Reporter: jlb.for, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

as long as the mails come with attachments, the folder files expands
considerably. Attached files should be made removeable from the folder file,
since most times these attachements are stored afterwards in many other disk
locations, but mail contents have to be preserved. Considering that there are
many problems with stability of mails in thunderbird folders (disappearing
mails, I got many problems with that), it's not safe to keep attached files all
in the same file.
I know that compressing folders is a way of removing deleted emails, but when
you have some disappeared emails, you try to keep an uncompressed file, in order
to, maybe, recovers vanished mails...
By the way, is there a way of undeleting a deleted mail ? or is it necessary to
know the structure of thunderbird files ?
A file maintenance tool (with deleted file viewer, undelete function, attachment
remover) would be an alternative, and greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance for future enhancements.
Furthermore, when moving mails from one folder to another, files increase
because of the method used in thunderbird to delete emails .... please take a
moment to think of that.

Reproducible: Always




It would be fine if our emails addresses would not be published directly on the
forum pages, since automatic spamming engines are collecting them. I noticed
that pollution since the day I sent a report there.
Related to bug 2920?
It was fixed in bug 2920, both for Seamonkey & Thunderbird. The current
trunk-version of Tunderbird already has it, but Thunderbird.1.0.4 (if it ever
exists) does not. You'll have to wait for Thunderbird 1.1.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2920 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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