369634 - Allow automatic delete (strip/detach) of all attachments for Sent Mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 83040

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Raman Johal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 (ax)
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.9 (20061207)

When a message is sent with an attachment, can the attachment be automatically detached so that the Sent Mail folder doesn't get clogged with too much data?  The attachment already exists on my hard drive, I don't need to have it duplicated in my sent box as well. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create Message with an attachment and hit Send
2. Look in the "Sent" folder
3. Message + Attachment sit in the folder.  Attachment takes up twice the disk space (original plus version in Sent box)



Create a "pointer" to the original attachment and save that with the message

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

You don't actually want them "detached" because that implies saving the attachment to disk first; you want the attachments deleted.

Comment 2

[Raman Johal]

Good point.  But, I would still like to have some sort of pointer (or reference) embedded in the email showing which file was once attached to it. 

Comment 3

[boris]

Is this so terribly complicated to implement? Why do we still duplicate Terabytes of useless data worldwide.
I have tried to contact a number of developers that implement something much more tricky like automatic save of attachments, but this rather simply looking feature does not meet the interest of an ingenuous developer that knows the inner workings of thunderbird...
... or is the right one just not found yet?