Closed Bug 662620 Opened 13 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Binary-free storage of mail

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9309

People

(Reporter: knocte, Unassigned)

Details

It would be interesting that Thunderbird would have an option to make mail storage binary-free: that is, attachments would not be stored along with text in the files that store all the emails, but just pointers to binary files in some special directory inside the profile.

This would allow TB to be backup/sync friendly. Nowadays there are backup tools (e.g. SparkleShare) that do version-control of user files. Thus, having emails being just plain text would help in reducing dramatically the space required for this tools to operate in the server (history).
Severity: normal → enhancement
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
You can already do this by detaching the attachments.
(In reply to comment #1)
> You can already do this by detaching the attachments.

Right but that's a manual process for a case-by-case basis. I'm referring for a general setting, something which would detach every attachment automatically when downloading mail to some subfolder in your profile.
I believe FiltaQuilla can do this by way of a message filter action.
it's also a duplicate of one of our  oldest open bugs
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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