[Dovecot] thunderbird detach attachment

[mourik jan heupink]

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:
>> 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
>>
>>
>
>