[dba-Tech] Thunderbird attachments

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?
>>>   
>>>       
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