On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 08:35 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 17:51 +0530, Sarfraaz Ahmed wrote: > > I'd like to know if there's any way of removing an attachment > > from a received email. I'd like to save the attachment > > somewhere and then delete it from the email to save space > > Quite a silly suggestion. > Not at all. Several popular mail clients allow this, e.g. Claws. IIRC > it's supported by the IMAP protocol.
Sort of. You can retrieve the message, delete the original message, and repost the message stripped of the attachment. The message contents (other than the attachment and possible MIME demarcation headers) will be identical but the UID of the message will change. > Of course the counter-argument is that by deleting the attachment you > don't have the original mail either. +1 It depends on what you need the original message for. > This is probably not important > unless the original is cryptographically signed, since the removal will > of course invalidate the signature. Yep. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
