Peter Brawley
peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 28 10:41:21 CDT 2008
John TBird asks not when the msg comes in, but when you click on the attachment. PB jwcolby wrote: > Actually I do have that set, to a directory which Thunderbird filled out > as a default, but which it did not create. However the only other > possibility is to ask me every time. I certainly don't want to be asked > every time a message comes in with an attachment. > > Are we saying that Thunderbird has to strip off attachments, that it > can't just leave them attached? If I create the folder that Thunderbird > failed to and it starts storing the attachments there, does it magically > keep a link to the file so I can get at it from the email? > > Peter Brawley wrote: > >> John, >> >> Occasonally TBird strips attachments it suspects, but it sounds to me as >> if you have Tools|Options|Attachments set to autosave attachments to a >> specified folder. >> >> PB >> >> 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? >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> > >