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Guru Thunderbird Help Please
Running Win XP pro on several PCs.
I need to have Thunderbird automatically place the eMail attachments in a local folder. I have never had any kind of problem using FileZilla with Thunderbird. It just works for me ! My oldest XP pro does this with FileZilla perfectly but the later Thunderbird version is giving me the bird ! Is there some addon that will place attachments in any folder folder ? Trying here first since I get no satisfaction at the Tbird newsgroup. if I have to go to an old Tbird, the so be it ! I must do this task ! Where can I get the one that works with FileZilla ? Links please. Thank you ! |
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Guru Thunderbird Help Please
Sorry, it is FiltaQuilla. NOT FileZilla
Firedup wrote: Running Win XP pro on several PCs. I need to have Thunderbird automatically place the eMail attachments in a local folder. I have never had any kind of problem using FileZilla with Thunderbird. It just works for me ! My oldest XP pro does this with FileZilla perfectly but the later Thunderbird version is giving me the bird ! Is there some addon that will place attachments in any folder folder ? Trying here first since I get no satisfaction at the Tbird newsgroup. if I have to go to an old Tbird, the so be it ! I must do this task ! Where can I get the one that works with FileZilla ? Links please. Thank you ! |
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Guru Thunderbird Help Please
Firedup wrote:
Sorry, it is FiltaQuilla. NOT FileZilla Firedup wrote: Running Win XP pro on several PCs. I need to have Thunderbird automatically place the eMail attachments in a local folder. I have never had any kind of problem using FileZilla with Thunderbird. It just works for me ! My oldest XP pro does this with FileZilla perfectly but the later Thunderbird version is giving me the bird ! Is there some addon that will place attachments in any folder folder ? Trying here first since I get no satisfaction at the Tbird newsgroup. if I have to go to an old Tbird, the so be it ! I must do this task ! Where can I get the one that works with FileZilla ? Links please. Thank you ! Sorry, it is FiltaQuilla. NOT FileZilla https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1067402 "Messages are stored as received, verbatim, with attachments *inline*." https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thu...n/filtaquilla/ "Works with Thunderbird 3.0b3pre to Thunderbird 45.* " [EDIT] Was really easy to make it work, and work great, with my TB 52.3. Do the following (this seems like a lot of steps, but I like to do all baby steps): 1. download the XPI 2. rename the .xpi to .zip 3. open it with 7-zip (or whatever you use to open zip files) extract the content to a folder. 4. open file install.rdf 5. change this line "em:maxVersion45.*/em:maxVersion " to "em:maxVersion55.*/em:maxVersion" (I changed it to 55 just to be safe for future updates of Thunderbird) 6. save the file install.rdf 7. from within the folder where the files are, select them all and make a zip with the defaults for "normal" compression. 8. rename the file from .zip to .xpi 9. and lastly follow the very simple instructions from mozilla on how to install a xpi as an extension https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...oaded-xpi-file) So that details how to "hack" the resource info so that it claims filtaquilla works with later versions. This might continue to work, until Thunderbird stops using Firefox 52ESR as its code base. Paul |
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Guru Thunderbird Help Please
Paul wrote:
Firedup wrote: Sorry, it is FiltaQuilla. NOT FileZilla Firedup wrote: Running Win XP pro on several PCs. I need to have Thunderbird automatically place the eMail attachments in a local folder. I have never had any kind of problem using FileZilla with Thunderbird. It just works for me ! My oldest XP pro does this with FileZilla perfectly but the later Thunderbird version is giving me the bird ! Is there some addon that will place attachments in any folder folder ? Trying here first since I get no satisfaction at the Tbird newsgroup. if I have to go to an old Tbird, the so be it ! I must do this task ! Where can I get the one that works with FileZilla ? Links please. Thank you ! Sorry, it is FiltaQuilla. NOT FileZilla https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1067402 "Messages are stored as received, verbatim, with attachments *inline*." https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thu...n/filtaquilla/ "Works with Thunderbird 3.0b3pre to Thunderbird 45.* " [EDIT] Was really easy to make it work, and work great, with my TB 52.3. Do the following (this seems like a lot of steps, but I like to do all baby steps): 1. download the XPI 2. rename the .xpi to .zip 3. open it with 7-zip (or whatever you use to open zip files) extract the content to a folder. 4. open file install.rdf 5. change this line "em:maxVersion45.*/em:maxVersion " to "em:maxVersion55.*/em:maxVersion" (I changed it to 55 just to be safe for future updates of Thunderbird) 6. save the file install.rdf 7. from within the folder where the files are, select them all and make a zip with the defaults for "normal" compression. 8. rename the file from .zip to .xpi 9. and lastly follow the very simple instructions from mozilla on how to install a xpi as an extension https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...oaded-xpi-file) So that details how to "hack" the resource info so that it claims filtaquilla works with later versions. This might continue to work, until Thunderbird stops using Firefox 52ESR as its code base. While the .xpi can be hacked to remove the version range restriction, that doesn't mean the add-on will work in a later version of Thunderbird. The OP could go through all that but the add-on may malfunction, or he could get lucky and it still works. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ will find lots of add-ons on matching an "attachments" search that will extract the attachments which are ALWAYS "inline". Attachments are MIME parts within the body of the message. The disposition=inline attribute of the MIME part means the client should show an attachment in the body of the message at the point where is the MIME part. The disposition=attachment attribute hints to the client that it should merely show the MIME part as an attachment to the message. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thu.../?q=attachment That finds add-ons that have something to do with attachment handling in Thunderbird (which is also what FiltaQuilla did). However, lots of add-ons are listed that ceased supporting some pretty old versions of Thunderbird. At the above web page, I clicked on "Any Thunderbird" to get a list of versions of Thunderbird (but it will not list all versions). I picked the latest version (62.0) since the OP did not clue us into what version he is using. That narrowed the search down to just 4 selections but none of them extract the attachments in received e-mails or hunt through Thunderbird's message store to find and extract attachments from any and all e-mails that have them. Even going down to version 52.0 of Thunderbird did not find a match on the search where an add-on claimed support up to that version of Thunderbird and would extract attachments. Modifying the .xpi to change the version range restriction might work. Well, it'll circumvent the installer from puking on the version check. Whether the add-on actually works in a later version of Thunderbird than it claims to support is, well, a coin toss. There are 3rd party tools to scan .eml files and extract/save attachments in them. Usually you point to a folder where are the .eml files (message store) for the e-mail client and have the tool scan all ..eml files to find those with MIME parts to decode them into a separate file. https://www.outlookfreeware.com/en/p...AttachmentsEML Although its says it is for MS Outlook, it is just hunting for .eml files. A feature not listed is replacing the MIME part with a local URL pointing to the extracted attachment. My guess is it extracts and saves a copy of the attachment but does not remove the MIME part from the e-mail (so there is no reduction in the message store for the e-mail client). "After you save attachments from EML files, you can remove them to reduce the size of your email archive by using the other utility we provide." They don't mention the "other utility" but my is https://www.reliefjet.com/Essentials...AttachmentsEML. https://www.rebex.net/sample/mail-extract-attachments/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...from-eml-files There are some code examples there. Outlook can run macros via rules but I don't know if Thunderbird can. There are some EML attachment extractors but they cost money. I suspect the OP is looking only free solutions since FiltaQuilla was free. |
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Guru Thunderbird Help Please
1st PC Win XP Pro TBird 52.8.0 (32-bit) FiltaQuilla installed and works. 2nd PC Win XP Pro TBird latest esr version FiltaQuilla will not install I can perhaps rewind to 52.8. |
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