Attachments are files sent with an email.
Attachments are files sent with an email.
Questions tagged [attachment]
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Can't open attachment in appropriate application from Thunderbird
When I try to open a PDF file from an attachment in an email in Thunderbird, I only get a few applications and none of them are appropriate to open PDF files:
When I save the file to my HD, it opens by default with the correct application (Document…
gitaarik
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Thunderbird. Attach file without browsing?
I have a user claiming that, under redhat, he was able to attach a file to thunderbird by typing the absolute path to the file.
Unfortunately, I don't have any redhat on which I can try it.
This option doesn't seem to be available in ubuntu 19.04.…
Pablo
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On Ubuntu Touch, how can I download files from e-mail web clients?
I use the ProtonMail and the GMail e-mail web applications on Ubuntu Touch. I want to download any files attached to e-mails I access using these web clients.
However, when I attempt to download an attached file like a compressed archive (.tgz) I…
d3pd
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Thunderbird composing: copy+paste image between text lines
I want to write a mail with this layout:
first line
IMAGE
second line
I tried these things:
In nautilus right-click on the image, then copy. Then paste in thunderbird: The path name gets inserted: /home/me/tmp/foo.png. That's not what I want.
I…
guettli
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Send file as attachment not contents of file
I'm trying to send a csv file as an attachment through the command line in Ubuntu. Currently, when running what seems to be the right command an e-mail is sent however, the contents of the CSV file are sent in the body instead of an actual file.
Any…
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Problems with opening/saving attachment in e-mail as .docx file
When I want to open an attachment (a .docx file) in an e-mail (Google Chrome) it automatically gets downloaded and saved as a .ashx file. How can I open this as a .docx file and be able to edit it?
user252146
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winmail.dat attachments on Evolution (Ubuntu Gnome 13.10)
Evolution doesn't show the attachments in the mails sent from Outlook, instead it shows a winmail.dat file.
I have already installed evolution-plugins-experimental and restarted Evolution. I also rebooted the computer completely, but there is no…
Elin Y.
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How to delete an attachment in an email in Evolution?
I would like to delete attachments from the email in the email client Evolution (at the moment 3.2.3, Ubuntu 12.04), so my the size of the IMAP-folders will not be bloated and can be reduced.
Filbuntu
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Amavis Blocks CSV attachments (and allows almost everything else)
I'm using Amavis with my mail server and I noticed it's blocking emails that have CSV attachments.
It's allowing everything else people usually use in business environments and is blocking file types that it should (like bat, exe etc).
I'm using…
Rob Watts
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GnomeGmail for Google Inbox (attachments)?
GnomeGmail did a nice job as default mail client sending attachments, e.g. from LibreWriter, but since I moved to Google Inbox, the Gnome Gmail only opens it, without attaching anything or opening the compose dialog box.
Is there a GnomeGoogleInbox?
Mookey
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Force thunderbird open attachments read-only
I asked help already in mozilla forums:
[...] it seems, that since the update to v31 Thunderbird does not open attachments as read-only (at least on my installs) and you can edit and save attachments (in my case libreoffice documents into the /tmp…
Aethralis
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reject mail with attachment and show a message instead
I'm new in term of linux environment and I really want to know if my problem have a solution or not.
So, I have the horde groupware installed, and the users could send email normally, but I want to know if I could prevent them of using the option to…
Abdallah Dhaou
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Searching for mails with two or more attachments - thunderbird
My Problem: I need to find all mails with two or more attachments. And I need to do so maybe 20 times a day for more than 10000 mails.
Can I make Thunderbird show the number of attachments a single mail has in inbox and not only if there is an…
eye
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Migrating from Thunderbird to Evolution
I'm considering the switch from Thunderbird (which they broke a year and a half ago and haven't fixed, I have no emails and no calendars unless I go to safe-mode and have to reset all settings each time I launch TB) to evolution, but 2 things are…
Emmanuelle
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Auto-split attachment from e-mail in e-mail client at download?
I've searched around on this for months every now and then, including here, to no avail. My issue seems so exotic I even seem unable to use the right set of keywords in forums and communities. That's why I've finally registered and am hoping…
Marco
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