Need an Email Program that saves attachments separately

[Robert]

In Windows I still use the old Eudora because it can save email attachments in a separate folder. It also handles them in a special way. If photos are sent attached to the email the attachment folder will fill with .JPG files. The attachments are intact and exactly as they were sent.

 

I never could find another email program that does it like that or I couldn't figure out how to set one up to do it.

 

What happens in other email programs is email attachments are saved within the email. If you open the email as a text file somewhere inside you will see the photo displayed as text. It's a combined mish mass of garbled characters. I just want stand alone photos separate from the email.

 

Is there any Linux email program that will put the attachments in a folder unaltered like old Eudora does?

[raymac46]

I use Thunderbird and you can definitely save attachments as separate files but you have to choose to do so manually from the Menu. I don't think you can configure the program to do it automatically.

[Guest LilBambi]

I don't know of ANY email clients for any OS that does that any longer. Even current Eudora in the form of Eudora OSE no longer stores email attachments in the file system; opting instead to follows suit with all other email clients which store attachments within the emails now:

 

Message Attachments

 

Eudora OSE continues the distinguished tradition of offering advanced options and controls for the handling of message attachments. There is, however, a substantial difference in the way that Eudora OSE handles message attachments, in contrast to its classic predecessor. While classic Eudora placed its attachments directly in the file system (where the could be directly accessed, copied, or moved), OSE stores its attachments inside of the mail file itself. (See the section on Removing Attachments below for further details.)

[securitybreach]

I don't know of ANY email clients for any OS that does that any longer. Even current Eudora in the form of Eudora OSE no longer stores email attachments in the file system; opting instead to follows suit with all other email clients which store attachments within the emails now:

 

I never thought about doing this but I wonder why none of the applications allow this anymore? Is it something security related or what?

[amenditman]

Thunderbird

Saving attachments

 

To save attachments for a single e-mail message, you can use any of these methods:

• Right-click on the attachment name or icon in the "Attachments" pane, at the bottom of the window, and choose "Save As..." (to save only the selected attachment) or "Save All..." (to save all attachments at once). In the dialog box that pops up, you can choose where on your computer you would like to save the attachments.
  
• Using the "File" menu: look under "File -> Attachments" for the "Save As..." and "Save All..." options.
  
• Using your mouse, select an attachment in the Attachments pane and drag it to your Desktop.
  
• Double-click on the attachment in the Attachments pane. See Actions for attachment file types for further details.
  

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Separating attachments from messages

 

Beginning with version 1.5, Thunderbird allows you to detach or delete attachments from messages. As opposed to saving an attachment, these actions remove the attachment from the message. (See <a class="external text" href="https://bugzilla.moz...ug.cgi?id=2920" rel="nofollow" title="https://bugzilla.moz...gi?id=2920">Bug 2920 for the background). To detach or delete one or more attachments, you can either:

• Select an attachment in the Attachments pane, right-click, and choose "Detach", "Delete", "Detach All", or "Delete All".
  
• Select a message in the message-list pane, go to "File -> Attachments", and choose one of the detach/delete options.
  

In Thunderbird 1.0x, there is no built-in means to detach or delete an attachment without deleting the entire message itself. You can try the Thunderbird Attachment Tools extension, however.

 

From mozillazine knowledge base article.

 

Highlighting mine.

 

 

See also, Thunderbird Attachment Extractor

Edited June 2, 2014 by amenditman

[V.T. Eric Layton]

[Guest LilBambi]

Thunderbird still stores them in the emails unless you save elsewhere and detach.

 

A lot of work for that. And you have do to it on each one meaning on a per email message basis.

 

They all use databases to hold email messages inclusive ... including attachments for email storage now.

 

No idea why they all switched to this method unless the other way made it easier to make use of malware attachments in Windows specifically. Who knows.

 

Seems silly to me to store attachments in databases that make the profiles huge. But there it is. Outlook Express and Outlook have done this forever.

[tforsman]

In Windows I still use the old Eudora because it can save email attachments in a separate folder. It also handles them in a special way. If photos are sent attached to the email the attachment folder will fill with .JPG files. The attachments are intact and exactly as they were sent.

 

I never could find another email program that does it like that or I couldn't figure out how to set one up to do it.

 

What happens in other email programs is email attachments are saved within the email. If you open the email as a text file somewhere inside you will see the photo displayed as text. It's a combined mish mass of garbled characters. I just want stand alone photos separate from the email.

 

Is there any Linux email program that will put the attachments in a folder unaltered like old Eudora does?

 

You probably want to try out claws-mail, I use it and it shows the .jpg files and so on as it was sent. So it does'nt load them at all.

 

I use a plugin called Fancy HTML Viewer inside the claws-mail

 

A sample:

 

 

 

There are alot of settings for just images and so on, so you can probably get the way you want it. Without and text messages where images should be loaded. As the pic above shows....it just removes the pics...if you like

Edited June 3, 2014 by tforsman

[Eggdog]

I've never tried this, but here's a page from the claws-mail FAQ:

 

http://www.claws-mai...ing_of_Messages

 

There's a section about filtering messages based on the type of attachment, with an example script and a hideous RegEx string for your entertainment. You might want to experiment with it.

 

I've been using claws-mail for years and love it. It's incredibly stable, and its appearance is only slightly more Nineties than Pegasus. I've never asked anybody associated with claws-mail for help on anything, which says less about my talents than about the fact that it works like a charm right out of the box, so I don't know what kind of support exists should you need advice on filter scripting. (It appears that advice happens via a mailing list, which is at http://www.claws-mail.org/MLs.php .)

[Guest LilBambi]

Claws-mail does not do what he was wanting though. Nothing does it.

[vision3001]

In Windows I still use the old Eudora because it can save email attachments in a separate folder. It also handles them in a special way. If photos are sent attached to the email the attachment folder will fill with .JPG files. The attachments are intact and exactly as they were sent.

 

I never could find another email program that does it like that or I couldn't figure out how to set one up to do it.

 

What happens in other email programs is email attachments are saved within the email. If you open the email as a text file somewhere inside you will see the photo displayed as text. It's a combined mish mass of garbled characters. I just want stand alone photos separate from the email.

 

 

2017 is the 10th year death anniversary for Eudora v7.109 and like you, I've been holding on to Eudora primarily because of it's unique (and essential) ability to automatically save any attachment into a separate folder. The advantage of this is numerous:

• Allows us to delete duplicate attachments (esp. the big ones, spammy ones, those with virus/malware/ransomware
  
• Allows us to move specific files to meaningful folders (rather than having one copy in the mail database, and the other in our personal folder)
  
• etc.
  

However, even though I have paid for and is using spamnix-3-0-30 to sort out the spam, it is a fact that spam & malware have evolved so much that newer spam engines are necessary to sort these spams out.

 

Searching for an Eudora replacement has became a yearly ritual for me since 5 years ago and will continue to do so. Perhaps someone will come up with a good replacement in the future...

 

Let's keep each other updated if any of us manage to locate this alternative mail client that has the ability to also automatically save any attachment into a separate folder.

 

Rdgs, Dr. L.

Edited March 25, 2017 by vision3001

[sunrat]

Interesting problem so I had a little look around the interwebz. There is an Thunderbird Add-On called FiltaQuilla that allows you to set custom filters including "Detach Attachments To". May do what you want or maybe not. I haven't tried it.

http://mesquilla.com...ns/filtaquilla/

https://addons.mozil...on/filtaquilla/

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Thunderbird with or without addons would have been my suggestion, but I imagine you've already checked out TB in your previous searches.

 

Oh, and WELCOME to Scot's Newsletter Forums!

[vision3001]

Interesting problem so I had a little look around the interwebz. There is an Thunderbird Add-On called FiltaQuilla that allows you to set custom filters including "Detach Attachments To". May do what you want or maybe not. I haven't tried it.http://mesquilla.com...ns/filtaquilla/

 

This is a wonderful news for a great Sunday!

 

I'll check out filtaquilla!I hope that filtaquilla does not do this:

(1) make a copy of the email attachment to a folder;

(2) but leave a copy of the same attachment in the TB database together with the mail,

 

Update: filtaquilla does actually what I've feared.

Edited March 26, 2017 by vision3001

[vision3001]

...There is an Thunderbird Add-On called FiltaQuilla that allows you to set custom filters including "Detach Attachments To". May do what you want or maybe not. I haven't tried it. http://mesquilla.com...ns/filtaquilla/

 

In brief, while TB+Filtaquilla does not achieve what Eudora auto detachment of message attachment to a separate folder, this is so far the best solution that I have seen since the death of Eudora 10 years ago. With a bit of programming to trim the 'duplicate' attachment (Base64) within the TB email msg file, utopia is within sight.

 

Moreover, the TB UI is definitely superior to the dated Eudora UI and the numerous TB add-ons is just splendid.

 

 

 

Thank-you sunrat for your lead.

[goretsky]

Hello,

 

I've been looking for a replacement email client for Qualcomm Eudora 7.1.0.9, too. Here are a few I've come across:

 

David Harris - Pegasus Mail - Wikpedia - free/donation page

eM Client - eM Client - Wikipedia -free version/$49.95 PRO

Hiroyuki Yamamoto - Sylpheed - Wikipedia - Open Source

Rimarts - Becky! Internet Mail - Wikipedia - $40 (Japanese payment processor only at this time)

Ritlabs, SRL - The Bat! - Wikipedia - free/$27 (home)/$60 (PRO)

 

I prefer something with limited HTML support, like Eudora, which is why I've left out Thunderbird, and I like its ability to save attachments into a separately folder, plus search and message filtering options. I'm not looking forward to re-doing my 791 email handling rules, though.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky