292067 - Allow creation of a filter to detach attachment upon mail receipt/send

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050425 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050425 Firefox/1.0+

I've moved from Eudora, and recieve large attachments regularly.

Like others, I'm pleased to see the detach feature, but would like to specify
that it happens automatically, so my attachments are stored in a folder and just
referenced from the mail message.

It would be good to enhance the filter dialog to 'Detach to <folder>' upon
receipt of a message 'With Attachment'


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 9309?

Comment 2

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 339463 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

xref also bug 105169

Comment 8

[Dany]

As a complement, it would be nice to have the "delete" option as well, i.e. to be able to delete the attached file rather than to save it.

Comment 13

[brendel oliver]

It seems both FiltaQuilla and AttachmentExtractorContinued have been rendered inoperative by the latest updates. With the mass of emails today, all in text as well as HTML, often with attachments, storage management is important, being able to clean in a secure way, too. And in my opinion, working with attachments concerns security and confidentiality and should therefore be integrated into the main program.
My main use for AttachmentExtractor actually comes from a TB missing option : copy-selfs are always saved with the attachment, where it could be largely sufficient to save the copy-self with a link to the attached file. As TB does not provide such an option, I need regularly to remove all attachments from my copy-selfs. And doing this one by one is rapidly becoming tedious.
So I also agree with the comment by Dany 13 years ago, that the filter should not only allow to detach but also to delete attachments.

Actually, concerning the sent copies, the attachment should be deleted, BUT the link to the file should be retained, as when the attachment is detached. So, perhaps, this is a different improvement suggestion.

Thanks in advance to the programmers for considering this

Comment 14

[Laurent Alebarde]

+1

Comment 15

[Dieter]

+1

Comment 17

[Laurent Alebarde]

In the present context of requirement to reduce CO2 emissions, this feature becomes a must have.