Deleting attachments

[quibble]

Does anyone know if it is possible to delete attachments from a
message, but keep the main body of the message? Or is there another
way to accomplish this?

[Nick Chirchirillo]

The only way to do this is to use a desktop mail client such as Outlook or Thunderbird and delete it from there.

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[Marko Vukovic]

Further to Nick's email, in Thunderbird one opens the message, right-click the attachment and select 'detach'. Note that this will work with IMAP only.

There is also a purpose-built app that can do this, IMAPSize

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[APB]

It doesn't preserve the sender's name in the From field, of course, but I would forward such a message to myself, omitting the attachment.

I usually put the sender's name in the subject field.

If you wanted to go to even more trouble, you could temporarily modify your "real" name in your settings to reflect the sender's real name, so that is what will show up in the from field in conversation view.

(I rarely bother to do this for attachments, but I occasionally have to do it with messages where a company has sent me my password in plain text.  (Always without warning, grrrr.))

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:48 PM, quibble <cdem...@gmail.com> wrote:

[quibble]

Thanks all. I will probably do the forwarding option, when needed. I
hate to change email addresses now, I just recently moved from
sympatico mail.

On Nov 7, 7:45 pm, APB <apba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't preserve the sender's name in the From field, of course, but I
> would forward such a message to myself, omitting the attachment.
>
> I usually put the sender's name in the subject field.
>
> If you wanted to go to even more trouble, you could temporarily modify your
> "real" name in your settings to reflect the sender's real name, so that is
> what will show up in the from field in conversation view.
>
> (I rarely bother to do this for attachments, but I occasionally have to do
> it with messages where a company has sent me my password in plain text.
>  (Always without warning, grrrr.))
>

[JohnW]

By chance I happened across an interesting "facility" for Gmail
accounts, which may be of interest to users who feel the need to prune
their e-mail accounts.
FindBigMail (http://findbigmail.com/ ) scans your All Mail and creates
4 new labels which it can then apply "Top20", ">2mb", ">500kb" and
">100kb" to the relevant e-mails.
You're never asked for your password (they use OAuth and get a token
from Google for temporary access) and they never log your e-mail
address, but use a hash thereof in their logs. [For those who are
concerned about any retention, you can verify that they've removed the
token at https://www.google.com/accounts/IssuedAuthSubTokens.]
It does't allow or facilitate the removal of attachments, but it
enables an account holder to identify those messages which are the
heavyweights in the mailbox!!
Although it's currently a "free" service, they are looking for a small
PayPal donation - which is fair given that the function works
remarkably well, and that they are still developing it!!
Now if only Google provided this service ...

[Zack (Doc)]

FYI... You can also do this with a good IMAP program.  I have done this in the past with Thunderbird and they had built-in searches for these categories.

[Tony Teo Kok Khiang]

I am happy with Thunderbird .... using it as a local backup for e-mails.