Re: Feature: is it possible to remove an attachement?

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 01/30/2006 12:03:10 PM Mon, Mişu Moldovan wrote:
> În data de Lu, 30 ian 06 la 18:39, Peter Bloomfield a scris:
> > On 01/22/2006 07:09:01 AM Sun, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to know if there is a way to remove an  
> > > attachement from a message?
> >
> > Move it to Draftbox, open it for editing, remove the  
> > attachment, save it back to Draftbox, and move it back where  
> > it came from?  It's no longer the same message that you  
> > received, and Balsa doesn't make it easy to create bogus  
> > messages!
>
>
> Now that was really ingenious, so I couldn't help trying it for
> myself... It kinda works, I was able to remove the attachment,  
> but the sender was lost, as I became the sender while editing  
> the message, which is not what Jean-Luc probably needs.

Thanks [ takes bow ] but it wasn't my idea--iirc, it's been  
discussed on the list!

Many versions ago, Balsa allowed you to write anything in the  
From: line; now, you'd have to create a bogus identity to do  
that.  So it's still possible, just cumbersome.

> Hideous as it may seem, this could be a very useful feature.  
> Getting rid of unneeded attachments while preserving the  
> original text part and keeping the original flow of the  
> discussion thread (if any) could save significant space in some  
> cases.

Yes, that's right.  I guess the attachment could be replaced with  
a place-holder that indicates that an attachment was  
removed--that would be a reminder for the user, and an alert for  
anyone the message is forwarded to.

Best,

Peter