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thestonehead / ThunderbirdAttachmentExtractor

Thunderbird add-on for extracting attachments from e-mails
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Thge plugin generally failing #20

Open felagund opened 1 year ago

felagund commented 1 year ago

I have been trying to reduce the size of my inboxes with this plugin over the last few days. One inbox is Gmail (using trick from comment 13 from here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679619#c13 ) one is not. I several multiple issues:

1) Especially when I tried to select dozens or maybe a hundred or two e-mails (attachment size 10 MB), the system would either slow down or Trash would be fulled with dozens of GBs (!) of data - several times I got warning by my system about hard disk space being completely eaten up.

2) When selecting multiple messages, some of their attachments get deleted, but I would say a minority. Not sure what the key to decide which one to remove is.

In general, the plugin seems to be more non-working then working.

Edit: I also tried version 1.5 and it does not seem to help either.

I always select "delete", nevver extract. I tried with several versions of Thudnerbird (latest and also 102.5.1) I think both extrension versoin 1.6 and 1.7. In the end I mostly go through e-mails one by one removing the attachments using Thunderbirds built-in feature. I am on Kubuntu 22.04.

thestonehead commented 1 year ago

The add-on isn't designed to handle hundreds of e-mails really. All it does is call the underlying native detach on the selected e-mails one by one. So any problem Thunderbird has when you do it one by one is the problem this add-on is going to have.

felagund commented 1 year ago

Thunderbird does not seem to have this problem though: when used one by one, it is quite reliable if quite slow and never seems to take up insane amount of space. And this problem happened several times when I selected just a dozen or so e-mails.

Also the second problem manifests itself even when I select one or two e-mails. Mostly the addon fails to remove the attachments. No idea why.