AttachSpace
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Objective
This Mozilla Thunderbird extension provides four fundamental functions for simplifying work with email attachments. In particular it provides three functions:
- Extract attachment with the possibility of Backup
- Open the destination folder
- Unzip the Zip archives if a single attachment is being extracted
- Remember the directory in which attachment are stored depending on the subject, the attachment name or eventually a tag attached to the email
Motivation
Simplify the exchange of documents by email reducing the time to select a folder which store email attachments
Status
- 2008-03-20 Sent to Mozilla Addons (1.0)
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Usage
Open attachment context menu and select "ex Save Selected" or "ex Save All"
Composition
During the composition the user attaches the emails as usual, then it can specify the tag in various ways:
- writing the tag in the subject "#tagname"
- writing the tag in the body attachspace:#tagname
- selecting the tag from the known tags using an option box just under the attachment list
- automatically the software selects the tag from the path of the attachments if they have been already defined
Optionally the tag could be sent with a special header.
It should be possible to associate a backup option to a tag. In this way the current version is always backup before overwriting
Reception
At the reception of the file the extension recognizes the presence of the tag from the subject or the special header. When the user performs a "Ex Save Selected" or "Ex Save All" operation the extensions proposes the defined directory as the destination. Also if there is no directory associated to a tag the first used by the user is remembered.
If the tag is expressed in multiple ways the order is first the header, then the subject, a tag in the email (set by Message Rule) and finally the body (Optional)
Security
There are currently no security issues in this extension because the folder path of the attachments is never exposed directly and also the user needs to click to extract the files.
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