[Dovecot] thunderbird detach attachment

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 10.04.2013 11:52, schrieb 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

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
>> 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
> 



Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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