[Dovecot] thunderbird detach attachment

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 10.04.2013 10:50, schrieb mourik jan heupink:
> Hi all,
> 
> Thunderbird has an option to detach attachments from (for example) sent
> items. 

really  ?, i think its an additional plugin

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

yes good idea

> 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

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