GNU/Emacs is your friend. Jeff
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 17:39 -0700, Santiago Serebrinsky wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if there's any way of removing an attachment from > an email, while keeping the text, headers, etc., exactly as in the > original email. > > I found several other people wanting this, and also people using this in > other clients having the feature. > > Is this the right place to ask for it? > > Thanks > > Santiago > > PS: I searched the web and I found strange pieces of information: > > 1- http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13423, a very old link > from 2001 (and many other bugs DUPLICATED), appears to be not solved. > > 2- > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-patches/2004-February/004302.html > appears to be related, but doesn't show what is it exactly about. > > 3- > http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution/2003-February/027149.html, from > Feb 2003, is the last in a thread, arguing why such feature would not be (ever?) > supported. I think the reasons given were not good, with answers as follows: > 1. May be it's not so difficult. > 2. Since attachment removal can be done by other means, if evo does not > allow it, this won't prevent email alteration/forgery (intentional or > not). Whoever wants to do it will be able to. With a similar reasoning, > no modification of a forwarded email should be allowed. > 3. This argument applies equally well to simple deletion of messages, or > any "undo" in any program. See also item 5. > 4. Why? > 5. It is similar to deleting any message. Saving maybe hundreds of MB in > undesired attachments may well worth the minute wait. See also point 2 > below. Maybe a policy of delete/expunge may be implemented to save time > here. > Good reasons for doing it: > 1. Quota limitations may force people to delete messages that they want > to keep as such, just because they contain (possibly large) attachments. > 2. Deleting an attachment once saves time while loading evolution > subsequently. > 3. If many people need/like/request it, it suggests it's a useful > feature to have. > > 4- The link http://support.ximian.com in > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution goes to Novell. > Surfing within novell.com, there appear to be two ways of removing > attachments, but involving GroupWise (which I have no idea what is it > about). > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.novell.com
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