[MlMt] Removing attachments

[Thomas Floeren]

On 17 Dec 2014, at 15:11, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 17 Dec 2014, at 15:04, Thomas Floeren wrote:
>
>> I’m referring to received messages. When I receive a file as mail 
>> attachment I save it to the appropriate folder on disk; I don’t 
>> want to have duplicates in MailMate’s folder and on the server.
>
> Sorry, this feature doesn't exist yet in MailMate. The only major 
> reason for that is that I haven't implemented it yet. You can track 
> progress on such a feature in tickets 
> [260](http://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672/tickets/513) and 
> [513](http://freron.lighthouseapp.com/projects/58672/tickets/260).
>

OK, thank you.

In ticket 260 you say…

> It is a non-trivial feature, in other words, don't expect it soon.

So please allow me to propose a (probably more trivial) feature:

My workflow requires that I save all project-related mails into the 
project folder on disk, once a project is finished. After that I delete 
these mails in the mail client. That is, the above mentioned shortcoming 
(duplicates in the mail client and on the server) is tolerable because 
it’s only temporary, as long as the project is still in work.

The real problem here is, when I save the mails (still with their 
attachments) with my project I’ll effectively have a lot of files 
twice in the project archive. It’s a long-term archive, i.e this kind 
of bloat is not desired.

The *perfect* solution would be the possibility to save the mails 
without attachment. For example, option-dragging the mail to a Finder 
folder saves it without any attachments. Or a menu command “Save 
without attachments…”.

For me this sounds a lot easier to implement, since the mail inside 
MailMate will remain untouched (= no need to re-upload any mails to the 
server).

What do you think?

-- 
Tom
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