Questions tagged [attachments]
216 questions
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Extract/save a mail attachment using bash
Using normal bash tools (ie, built-ins or commonly-available command-line tools), is it
possible, and
how
to extract/save attachments on emails?
For example, say I have a nightly report which arrives via email but is a zip archive of several log…
warren
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Save attachments from many emails at once in Outlook?
Someone sent me 200 emails overnight, with one file attachment apiece. sigh
I'm expecting another 200 each night for the next three nights (the emails come from a server, so asking them to batch them isn't possible).
The file attachments have unique…
richardtallent
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Prevent Thunderbird from trying to display large plain text attachments
I have a coworker who loves sending large plain-text tab-delimited data files by e-mail instead of our network share. The problem is that Thunderbird hangs while it renders all of that text into the message view window, making my inbox unhappy for…
UltraNurd
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Add to list of extensions Outlook knows how to preview
We have several processes that email logs or other text files to us.
When the extension is .txt, Outlook knows how to show the preview within its main window.
When the extension is .log, Outlook will only offer to open it in an external application,…
techturtle
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Where does Outlook 2007 store opened attachments temporarily?
If a 'friend' has double-clicked an Excel attachment from an Outlook 2007 email and worked on it, saved it and then closed Excel and the email, where would that file be lurking (assuming I haven't exited Outlook?
I seem to remember Outlook 2003…
pelms
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Search for email containg attachment of specific file type
I'd like to search for an email that contains an excel attachment. I'm using outlook.
I know I can do
hasattachment:true
but this matches any attachment type
I've also tried,
attachment:*.xlsx
but this doesn't work
Nathan Koop
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How do I get Thunderbird to show the attachments expanded
The latest update to Thunderbird email client shows the attachments under a separate panel. I'd like the panel to display expanded automatically.
How do I do that? It doesn't seem to be in the help files or the release notes.
Brad Bruce
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"This file can't be previewed because of an error in the Microsoft Word previewer."
The issue is:
Outlook 2013 simply will not give a preview of Word (nor Excel) docs in attachments.
Never had the issue with Outlook 2010. Using Outlook 2013 on Windows 7 64bit SSD with Word 2010.
I did notice that "Microsoft Word" is not listed…
danielson
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How to open a .zip / .tar.* file attached in a .pdf file in Adobe Reader/Acrobat XI?
When I try to open a pdf file on Adobe Reader XI (or even in Adobe Acrobat XI !!!) which has a .zip or a .tar.* file attached to it, I get the message:
Acrobat cannot save the file attachment "file.zip" because your PDF file attachment settings do…
Thales MG
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How to strip off mail attachments in Thunderbird while keeping the mail
As I have only 500MB quota on my IMAP account and I want to keep messages when I sent something to someone but the data attached to those mails is often out of date and of no use anymore, it come to my mind that I could delete the attachments and…
math
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How to search email by attachment name in Thunderbird?
I know that somewhere in my mailbox there is an email with an attachment of which I remember (part of) the name. Is it possible to locate this email automatically?
Jasper
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Download multiple attachments
The Notes native client has an option to download all attachments to a folder.
I cannot found similiar on web based iNotes (8.5).
Is there a way to download all attachments at once ?
PeterMmm
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How to mass remove attachments in Thunderbird using Attachment Extractor?
I found the Attachment Extractor that should do exactly what I want--to delete attachments from selected or all emails. Unfortunately, after installing it and restarting Thunderbird, it did not work for me. I selected a group of messages, some with…
Michael Sorens
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Strip attachments from emails to disk but leave a link in the email to the attachment
I want to be able to strip attachments from emails and save them to disk. What I also want to do in addition to this is leave a link within the email to the attachment that was stripped out and saved to disk.
Lots of reasons to do this:
Speeding…
Kez
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Safari: Can't attach files
I have a safari 14.0.1 problem on macOS 10.14.6
When I am running gmail or another app which needs attachments over safari, and I click on the paperclip icon in either app, the browser file select windows does not appear.
Things I have tried.
I can…
Simon Tye
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