Re: [Evolution] Removing attachments

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 23:01 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > Of course the counter-argument is that by deleting the attachment
> you
> > don't have the original mail either. This is probably not important
> > unless the original is cryptographically signed, since the removal
> will
> > of course invalidate the signature. As long as the user is aware of
> > this, I don't see the problem.
> >
> > poc
>
> I use a local maildir to store my mails (retrieved through
> offlineimap)
> and I'd just remove that part of the text file. Of course that
> probably
> wouldn't help the OP, but its something which can be considered, I
> guess. Not sure whether it would corrupt the mail, but I doubt so.

No reason it should, if done carefully, but my remarks about signatures
would still apply of course.

More to the point, this isn't a general solution. Those of us who keep
nearly all our mail on IMAP servers can't do this kind of thing. It
needs to be integrated with Evo.

poc