GNU/Emacs is your friend. Jeff On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 17:39 -0700, Santiago Serebrinsky wrote:
Hi, I would like to know if there's any way of removing an attachment from an email, while keeping the text, headers, etc., exactly as in the original email. I found several other people wanting this, and also people using this in other clients having the feature. Is this the right place to ask for it? Thanks Santiago PS: I searched the web and I found strange pieces of information: 1- http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13423, a very old link from 2001 (and many other bugs DUPLICATED), appears to be not solved. 2- http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-patches/2004-February/004302.html appears to be related, but doesn't show what is it exactly about. 3- http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2003-February/027149.html, from Feb 2003, is the last in a thread, arguing why such feature would not be (ever?) supported. I think the reasons given were not good, with answers as follows: 1. May be it's not so difficult. 2. Since attachment removal can be done by other means, if evo does not allow it, this won't prevent email alteration/forgery (intentional or not). Whoever wants to do it will be able to. With a similar reasoning, no modification of a forwarded email should be allowed. 3. This argument applies equally well to simple deletion of messages, or any "undo" in any program. See also item 5. 4. Why? 5. It is similar to deleting any message. Saving maybe hundreds of MB in undesired attachments may well worth the minute wait. See also point 2 below. Maybe a policy of delete/expunge may be implemented to save time here. Good reasons for doing it: 1. Quota limitations may force people to delete messages that they want to keep as such, just because they contain (possibly large) attachments. 2. Deleting an attachment once saves time while loading evolution subsequently. 3. If many people need/like/request it, it suggests it's a useful feature to have. 4- The link http://support.ximian.com in http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution goes to Novell. Surfing within novell.com, there appear to be two ways of removing attachments, but involving GroupWise (which I have no idea what is it about). _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - evolution lists ximian com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
-- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. fejj ximian com - www.novell.com
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