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From: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Pruning attachments
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:23:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imk2fezg.fsf@uwo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2sy7jlt.fsf@gnus.org>

On Feb 19, 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Didier Verna <didier@didierverna.net> writes:
>
>> now that I'm running short on Gmail storage, I figured there are many
>> emails with attachments that I would like to keep, but without the
>> attachments (for example because I saved them somewhere else).
>>
>> Is there a way in Gnus/nnimap to save and email but get rid of the
>> attachments?
>
> If you hit `e' on an nnimap message containing attachments, you can then
> edit it to delete the attachments.  This can probably be automated
> pretty easily...

I use `d' on an attachment button to delete it, `C-o' to save it and
replace it with a link to where you save it, `r' to delete it and
replace it with a link to a specified, already existing file, etc.

On nnimap groups, this works, but is a bit flakey, often leaving both
the edited message and the original message around.  When that happens,
I just delete the original message.

Dan




      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-19 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-19  8:56 Didier Verna
2020-02-19 14:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-02-19 21:23   ` Dan Christensen [this message]

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