[Evolution] Re: managing attachments

[Dan Berger <dberger ix netcom com>]

> Eudora (on the Mac anyway) has a feature I like where attachments are
> downloaded into a designated folder. The message then just keeps a
> reference to that file instead of keeping the whole attachment embedded
> within the mail. The inbox then does not grow to astronomical sizes. My
> Evolution inbox currently is about 80MB, largely due to attachments. I
> guess most of it is my fault for not having saved attachments and
> deleting the mail, but in many cases I want to keep the mail around for
> future reference.
>
> Is something like that possible in Evolution? I guess what I am asking
> for is an option to automatically save my attachmetns to disk and then
> cutting it out of the email. Or does this go against all RFCs?
>
> Thanks,

Mutt actually has a feature which I find terribly useful.  On non
PGP-signed messages, you can delete individual MIME parts.  This allows,
for example, you to save the message attachement to disk, and delete the
attachment from the message.

It keeps track of when the part was deleted and shows you (for example):

[-- Attachment #2 --]
[-- Type: message/external-body, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.2K --]
[-- This application/x-rpm attachment (size 2.2M bytes) has been deleted
--]
[-- on Mon, 30 Jul 2001 21:40:51 -0700 --]

I just filed a bug (5927) asking that Evo support this sort of behavior.

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