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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Thunderbird 3 attachment reminder

Today I got scared by Thunderbird 3 (beta), when it brought the following pop up when I was trying to send an email:



Huh?
Well at first I just hit "No, Send Now", because I never intended to attach a file...

Hours later it did it again with a different email, still did not want to attach anything.
Couldn't find any pattern when it would come up with the pop up or not.

Then I tried it out (could've googled it of course):
When the email you send contains the wort attached or attachment (or variations a I guess), but there is no attachment, Thunderbird assumes, you just forgot it... and warns you.

Try it yourself: Send an email that says "Attached you'll find nothing" to yourself, and voila...

Cool...
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3 comments:

  1. NoseJul 31, 2009, 9:12:00 AM

    uh-oh, starting to "think" and "assist" like clippy...
    "It seems you are writing a letter. Do you want to learn more about writing letters?"

    I dont like that.

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  2. Trevor RundellAug 18, 2009, 5:26:00 PM

    This also bothered me. You can turn it off by going Tools > Options > Composition > General and uncheck 'Check for missing attachments'.

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  3. RomanAug 19, 2009, 6:27:00 AM

    Trevor,
    I don't wont to turn it off.
    At least not yet ;-)

    But thanks for the pointer to the options... I missed that one...
    You can actually configure the keywords there... excellent.

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