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Is there a way to prevent Thunderbird from downloading attachments? I just want to download the message and leave attachments on the mail server. When I need to open the attachment I would then download it again from the server.

Is there any way to do this?

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Attachments are encoded as part of the message, so no.

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The best you can do is create filters that look for certain file types, like x-zip-compressed.

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Sorry I can't get you. The problem is it takes time to load the entire message + attachments so I want to only load and read the message first then I would download the attachmetns later. – ITFan Aug 7 '11 at 11:00
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