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distinguish & reduce duplicate attachments in sidebar
recently i had to send an attachment received through email to a bunch of different people. for various reasons i could not just forward that mail. so i wrote a bunch of new emails. for each email, i added the attachment from the sidebar.
this resulted in n copies of exactly the same attachment (i was expecting to see the attachment listed only once); i did not have to save it to disk (which is good), but when i got replies from the people i sent it to, that resulted in n slightly different copies of the attachment with the same name (they were asked to modify & return). for a total of 2n attachments with the same name
this situation leads to a whole bunch of attachments all named identically with some duplicates and some uniques. when using the sidebar to send/forward attachments, i have no way of knowing which attachment is which. i could still narrow down the attachment by searching in the attachment view, but often i'd like to browse (and searching is best done with sender names, not other kinds of information)
ideally, postbox should
1. not duplicate attachments when sending using the sidebar
2. provide enough context information alongside an attachment icon to be able to differentiate (e.g. in a sent email, recipient's names but in a received email, sender's name)
this resulted in n copies of exactly the same attachment (i was expecting to see the attachment listed only once); i did not have to save it to disk (which is good), but when i got replies from the people i sent it to, that resulted in n slightly different copies of the attachment with the same name (they were asked to modify & return). for a total of 2n attachments with the same name
this situation leads to a whole bunch of attachments all named identically with some duplicates and some uniques. when using the sidebar to send/forward attachments, i have no way of knowing which attachment is which. i could still narrow down the attachment by searching in the attachment view, but often i'd like to browse (and searching is best done with sender names, not other kinds of information)
ideally, postbox should
1. not duplicate attachments when sending using the sidebar
2. provide enough context information alongside an attachment icon to be able to differentiate (e.g. in a sent email, recipient's names but in a received email, sender's name)
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Inappropriate?5 months... no reply... another 3 ppl having same problem...
here is my story on this topic:
1. I received an email with an attachment (part 1.2.png)
2. I did "Reply All" (the attachment was automatically included in my reply with a name "Part 1.1.2.png)
3. When I look at the messages in "conversation" view, I see 3 images in the panel...
What I would expect (maybe it's configurable?):
1. When I reply (all), the attachment should _be_ excluded (unless I specifically add the same file, modified locally on my laptop)
2. Do not duplicate the attachments (keep a pointer and be able to show the attachment even if I delete it from the first mail, etc)
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?I had the same problem but more simply and it caused me grief. I got an email with the apparent duplicated Word attachment. So I deleted one of them. "Both" were deleted and irretrievable. I had to go back to sender and ask them to resend. Not desirable for many situations (e..g. business). Seems to be a long unsolved problem.
I’m incovenienced
