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In Thunderbird, how to save an attached email directly to a mail folder?

In Outlook, if I receive an email that has another email as an attachment (e.g. sender did "Forward as attachment" on an email, or an email attached to a bounce message), I can save a copy ...
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How does Thunderbirds attachment search work?

Thunderbird has an advanced email search functionality which can be opened with Ctrl + Shift + F. One of the available search conditions is simply 'Attachment'. Problem is that I get no results, even ...
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Thunderbird changes the size of attachment

I want to send an email with an attached pdf file using Thunderbird. The file is about 15~16MB, but Thunderbird shows it as having 21MB: This prevents the mail to be sent: Any ideas what can be ...
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Change temp directory where Thunderbird stores attachments when opening them

Using Thunderbird 38.5.1 on Windows, I sometimes double-click on an attachment in a received message to open it. The file is saved to my temp directory (%TEMP%), but I don't want it to be saved to ...
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When I send a PDF attachement in Thunderbird, the binary data is displayed after the message body

When I send a PDF attachment, the PDF content is displayed as binary data converted to text after the message body. This occurs in mail in my "Sent mail" and in the recipient's inbox. Thunderbird 24....
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Should Thunderbird send inline png attachments as text/plain?

I'm composing emails in Thunderbird. When I attach png images by dragging to the header region, they are attached as Content-Type: image/png; name="foo.png" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 ...
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Compress an attachment in my mailclient inside my INBOX?

I got a lot of emails with uncompressed formats (like bmp, txt, ...) that I want to keep inside my IMAP-inbox, so I can access them from all my devices (Windows, Linux, ios, Android). Those emails ...
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Thunderbird attachments missing

I'm running Thunderbird 8 on Windows XP with no add-ons. I'm using an IMAP server. On some of the emails I am getting, there aren't attachments even though I have confirmed that attachments exists on ...
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Is there a way to prevent Thunderbird from downloading attachments?

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 ...
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