Re: Automatic uploading of attachments to cloud storage as Thunderbird does?

[Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>]

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
>> One thing I miss from Thunderbird, is the possibility to upload arge
>> attachments to a cloud storage and to include in the email the link to
>> the file instead of the original document.
>>
>> Is something similar possible in gnus?
>
> What mechanism does Thunderbird use to do that?

I don't now about the internal mechanisms, but in principal it is doing
the following:

1) Initially, cloud storage accounts are setup (e.g. ubuntu one or
dropbox)

2) when an attachment is above a certain size, it is uploaded
(presumibly https?) to the cloud storage

3) a link to the shared file on the cloud storage account is returned
and inserted ionto the email, so that the recipient can download it from
there.

The uplaoded attachments are public, i.e. can be downloaded from
everybody with the url.

Rainer

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