[dba-Tech] Thunderbird attachments

Actually I remember now why I switched, I got tired of the Outlook 
"setup from scratch shuffle".  I had to rebuild my laptop and outlook 
only stores the addresses and emails in the main file, all the rest of 
the stuff (signatures, email account info etc) is scattered all over 
hell and back.

Outlook has been around for about 10 years now and if it still can't do 
a complete "backup and restore everything" then it seems exceedingly 
likely that it never will.

Firefox and thunderbird has a very nice little add-in which will capture 
EVERYTHING and restore it later, or so they claim.

jwcolby wrote:
> I recently switched from Outlook to Thunderbird as my email client and I 
> am having difficult reliably getting attachments.  Sometimes I do, I 
> have received excel spreadsheets, but mostly I don't.  I also don't seem 
> to get embedded photos when one client embeds screen shots.
> 
> Does thunderbird automatically strip off attachments?  Is there a way to 
> tell it not to?  What about embedded bitmaps (screenshots).
> 
> Why do I do stupid things like switching my email client when Outlook 
> was working fine?

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John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com