Re: [Evolution] Deleting attachments

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 08:50 +0200, Martin Fox wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:00:33 -0400
> Andrew Duane <andrew savaje com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to remove attachments from a message? I often get BIG
> > attachments on small messages that I need to keep (for instructions,
> > etc). But I'd like to not keep the 10MB of attachments there too,
> > after I've saved them.
> Hi Andrew
> Each mail directory in evolution is a separate file in mbox format.
>
> If you copy the main file (the one with the folder name only) to a
> temporary directory, then run 
>
> delatt --mbox --save <attachments folder> <mailboxname>
[...]

This is fine if you're talking about local mailboxes, but not for remote
mailstores such as IMAP. Ironically, these often have a quota per user
and thus would benefit from being able to delete attachments.

poc