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RealRaven2000 / FiltaQuilla

Adds many new mail filter actions to Thunderbird
http://quickfilters.quickfolders.org/filtaquilla.html
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Feature request: add option to delete attachments from matched messages, without folder download if possible #51

Open Pegasus-RPG opened 4 years ago

Pegasus-RPG commented 4 years ago

I often need to mass-delete attachments from sent messages for my clients. Currently I have to mass-detach them to a file system folder, then delete them from there. It would be great if I could just tell FQ to delete the attachments directly.

Also, would this be possible if IMAP folder sync/download was disabled? That would be perfect!

RealRaven2000 commented 4 years ago

Also, would this be possible if IMAP folder sync/download was disabled? That would be perfect!

No. not as far as I know. I believe attachments are parts of the body of the email, there is no information in the header about them. That's what makes them so hard to work with, and literally excludes any meaningful filter conditions from working with attachemnts: sadly the filter testing still runs synchronously which would lead to catastrophic slowdowns in folders with many attachments.

By the way, this stuff is very hard to test. Might be easier to do a quick remote debugging session and see it crash on your computer than me trying to replicate your environment. Just a thought.

Pegasus-RPG commented 4 years ago

I believe attachments are parts of the body of the email, there is no information in the header about them.

Sure, but could FQ's attachment handing possibly operate on each message as it is downloaded instead of having to have the entire folder pre-downloaded?

RealRaven2000 commented 4 years ago

I believe attachments are parts of the body of the email, there is no information in the header about them.

Sure, but could FQ's attachment handing possibly operate on each message as it is downloaded instead of having to have the entire folder pre-downloaded?

possibly, who knows? I think I tried that and failed... It would be awesome if there was an IMAP command for deleting attachments. Maybe there is?

Also this stuff is super low level, I am convinced this will never be allowed to a web extension. We really should ask Thunderbird to create an API for this.