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6 Nov 2012, 03:44 AM | #1 |
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Delete attachments functionality missing
I sometimes receive a large newsletter-type e-mail containing a huge amount of pictures an consuming a lot of storage space.
In the previous interface, I am able to delete the attachments separately, but the new interface does not seem to support that. So, once again, I'm back to using the previous interface (not that I mind at all, it worked for maybe 10 years and suffices for my limited use). |
6 Nov 2012, 07:31 AM | #2 |
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Removing attachments is a function I use several times each day. If It were not then then I would need to permanently delete a lot of email that I'd rather keep, but without the huge attachments that come with it.
I get lots of work email that I'd rather keep for future reference, but I don't need the 200-300KB bmp logos that come with it. I get email with questions from my students that often have the problem book attached as pdf just to refer to a question on some page of the book. I don't need to keep a copy of the book attached to every email a student sends (arguably perhaps I should permanently delete all the mail I get from my students, but then I don't want to change the way I do my work just because an extremely useful feature was deleted from the interface I use to do my work). And sometimes I get email with many pages of scanned pages of students homewor. I don't need to keep my students' homework in my mailbox after I print it. I do want to keep a record of the submission of the homework (that is the message with all it's headers and without the attachments). And I also would like to keep the email family members send with whatever they are telling there, without having to keep many MB of photos they attached to the same messages. |
6 Nov 2012, 08:00 AM | #3 | |
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Fastmail probably made a mistake by removing all this functionality from the new interface. Making it available in advanced menus or something would have been wiser. Very happy the classic is still around. |
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9 Nov 2012, 04:09 AM | #4 |
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I agree. Please bring back the delete attachments functionality. Please also allow attachments to be sent without actually attaching them to the copy of the message that is stored as sent mail.
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9 Nov 2012, 07:53 AM | #5 |
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delete attachments
This lack of functionality to delete attachments is a fundamental issue. I sent an email to Fastmail about it, but got a form reply that said I should use the new interface until I got to like it. Quite simply....I won't....not until I can delete attachments. I would do that on average 10 - 20 times per day. I also delete them from my Sent emails. If I didn't, I would have exceeded my allocated storage space long ago. Another thing, I changed the Options to show Size, but it does not work - email size does not appear on the interface.
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9 Nov 2012, 08:44 AM | #6 |
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Yes, we intend to add this back in somehow. Regarding displaying message size, it does show when you sort by size.
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9 Nov 2012, 10:32 AM | #7 |
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- I suggest you allow users to choose what to display, including message size, without having to resort by size. I've always used the size info to decide what messages to delete, or to delete the attachments within.
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9 Nov 2012, 06:01 PM | #8 |
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Probably not able to do this, but what of one interface with option to use our not use advanced features?
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10 Nov 2012, 03:42 AM | #9 |
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I am confused.
Is it possible to delete attachments in the new classic interface? If so, how. The new help references "bounce". Where is that? I thought it was long gone. |
10 Nov 2012, 05:37 AM | #10 | |
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So when deleting attachments is brought to the new interface, I suggest that two things are fixed:
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10 Nov 2012, 07:51 AM | #11 | |
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When I delete an attachment from a sent message I get a notification when seeing the message: Attachments Documents: ---------------------------------- important.doc (Deleted) 808k) |
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10 Nov 2012, 08:37 AM | #12 |
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I just sent myself an email message with two attachments, using "Classic" interface, with "Do Not Save" selected in the "Save attached files" menu. The email arrived with the two attachments. The coly in the "Sent Items" folder had no attachments, and no indication that there where attachments 9and I tried to view it both as html and as plain text, but even in "raw message" view, there was no trace of any attachment that used to be threre. In the new interface no attachments are seen in the "Sent Items" copy. I deleted one attachment manually from the received copy, and the new interface still allows downloading it with the original filetype.
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10 Nov 2012, 06:49 PM | #13 | |
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Why would it show in one "Sent" and not "Sent Items"??? |
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20 Dec 2012, 03:08 PM | #14 |
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Ah I am glad to know other people have noticed this. The only way to remove an attachment is to delete the whole message, and the only way to save a message is to archive it (also far more annoying to do than it used to be), which saves it WITH the attachment. I read my archived email with a plain text viewer, so the attachment is just a huge lump of characters.
I didn't know it was possible to access the old interface, though; I only have the option of changing the style sheet as far as I can discern. |
21 Jan 2013, 05:04 PM | #15 |
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+1
This feature should be made available in the new interface. Just searched for it, in vain. |
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