Am 10.04.2013 11:52, schrieb Robert Schetterer:

Am 10.04.2013 10:50, schrieb mourik jan heupink:

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Hi all,

Thunderbird has an option to detach attachments from (for example) sent items.

really ?, i think its an additional plugin

sorry ,confused by german translation in tb, in deed there is option detach

I've tried it, and it does not work, and also in the dovecot logs

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I don't see anything interesting meanwhile.

Before looking deeper into this: Does anyone here know if this option is known to work, or not?

We're running dovecot 2.1.7 on debian wheezy.

Removing unwanted attachments is a nice way to keep mail archives

yes good idea

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smaller...

Thanks, MJ

My Understanding of that is as long as you have your mail folder option offline synchronzied , which is default at Thunderbird , all actions happens first to Thunderbird local tmp store , then synced to the server

use secure way ,move all mails in imap sent folder to real local folder on your machine , then cut attachments , move it back to imap sent folder

at last i guess your problem is not server related anyway, but Thunderbird might crash mail at trying cut direct on imap folder, i ve seen this some time before

Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer

Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer

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Hi all,

Ow... too shortsighted..! You are right, it DOES work. The attachment is still there, but with empty contents.

Thanks and sorry to bother you!

MJ

On 4/10/2013 12:10 PM, Andreas Kasenides wrote:

This looks to work on my 17.0.5 Thunderbird on CentOS 6.4 (I guess Dovecot is not involved but running on 2.2.beta1). It does detach the file, places it in the chosen folder, removes the option to detach or delete from the message menu but (nice indeed) remembers where you put the attachment and can still show it if you click on it or save it again if you want to!!

But how do we know its been detached if it still shows in Thunderbird? Looking into the actual message file I see the following at the end:

--------------020104000205010901050407 Content-Type: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text; name="=?UTF-8?B?MjAxMzA0MDQtzpPOoy5vZHQ=?=" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="20130404-??.odt" X-Mozilla-External-Attachment-URL: file:///LocalData/tmp/20130404-%CE%93%CE%A3.odt X-Mozilla-Altered: AttachmentDetached; date="Wed Apr 10 12:51:00 2013"

You deleted an attachment from this message. The original MIME headers for the attachment were: Content-Type: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text; name="=?UTF-8?B?MjAxMzA0MDQtzpPOoy5vZHQ=?=" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename*=UTF-8''%32%30%31%33%30%34%30%34%2D%CE%93%CE%A3%2E%6F%64%74

--------------020104000205010901050407--

Nice!!

Andreas

On 10/04/13 11:50, mourik jan heupink wrote:

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Hi all,

Thunderbird has an option to detach attachments from (for example) sent items. I've tried it, and it does not work, and also in the dovecot logs I don't see anything interesting meanwhile.

Before looking deeper into this: Does anyone here know if this option is known to work, or not?

We're running dovecot 2.1.7 on debian wheezy.

Removing unwanted attachments is a nice way to keep mail archives smaller...

Thanks, MJ