This is really a nice feature ! My test however was only partly successful : the attachment is still present (full size) in the message sent (everything goes ok, the filelink message is created, the file is uploaded to the DL server, but at the end, the attachment is not reduced to size 0).
[ Note that I never tested the filelink option of Thunderbird with another filelink provider, and maybe that's the default behavior (but what would be the benefit in that case... ?) ] JJ On 28/06/2013 23:02, Yuri D'Elia wrote: > I only realized a month ago that Thunderbird got a "Filelink" feature to > upload attachments to external service providers. > > This article describes how it works: > > https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/filelink-large-attachments > > They provide Dropbox/YouSendIt providers, and of course I *had* to > integrate DL so you can have your own "cloud" provider. > > So here it is: > > http://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/tmp/thunderbird-filelink-dl.xpi > > The integration is pretty sweet, and works by using the REST interface > implemented in DL 0.10 and above. If you have a DL 0.10+ installation > and you are using Thunderbird you can use it right away! > > It's going to be part of DL 0.11 (hopefully soon to be released). > > There are some caveats, mostly due to Thunderbird: I wasn't able to > provide user-configurable settings in the management interface. Right > now the extension will use the server's defaults. > > You also cannot have multiple DL services. Again, this is a Thunderbird > limitation that prevents you to create multiple DL services. > > You cannot change the username once set. Again, the other extensions > seem to have the same (dumb?) limitation. The password is not stored in > the login manager (a bug out of lazyness, I will fix this later). > > If you convert an attachment to a link, and later "delete it", the > ticket will *not* be deleted (but it will be expired normally). There's > no REST interface for that yet. Likewise, there's no pretty pie chart in > the management interface, because DL has no quotas yet. > > Feedback appreciated. > >
