On Oct 31, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
We have mentioned the fact about the attachments.
What's wrong with the following (other than changing old habits)?
Q: Where are my Apple Mail attachments stored?
A: They are stored on the mail server and also cached on your computer
with messages in your Inbox (INBOX.imapmbox). This is different from
Eudora, which stores attachments in yourAttachments folder, separate
from the messages. Apple Mail’s Inbox is stored in your home
directory, in this location: Library>Mail>IMAPusername
@yourmailserver>INBOX.imapmbox (where username is your username and
yourmailserver is your mail server’s hostname, such as po14.mit.edu).
If you’ve created subfolders on the IMAP mail server, their .imapmbox
files can be found in the INBOX folder, in the same location as your
INBOX.imapmbox file.
Q: How can I download my Apple Mail attachments to save them
indefinitely on my computer?
A: You can save a single attachment by dragging its icon from the
message to the desktop or to another location. If you’d like to
saveattachments from more than one message at a time, select the
messages and then go to File>Save Attachments, select a download
location, and choose Save.
Q: How can I delete attachments without deleting the messages
themselves?
A: Select the messages in question, then go to
Message>Removeattachments. This will create a duplicate copy of the
message without attachments. The original message, including
attachments, will be marked for deletion or moved to the trash
mailbox, depending on your settings. Once you purge your messages or
empty your trash, the attachments are not recoverable, unless you have
backups of your cached .imapmbox files.
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