Ability to remove/delete attachments
Attachments are not always worth keeping, so please add ability to delete selected attachments as an alternative to simply downloading them.
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John Jones
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My inbox is 100% full.
If I could just bulk delete all the useless attachments it would be 5% full and everyone would be happier. -
Chris
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Goodness, why does it take so loooooooooooooong???????????
Please please please give it to us! -
wavelet3000
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please add this simple feature and don't be evil like gmail
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John Jones
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PLEASE add this! My inbox is full. I don't want to lose the conversations, but I have no need for any of the large attachments as they've all been saved.
I would like:
• A button to "Remove All Attachments From All Emails"
• After I've downloaded an attachment, a dialog appears:
"Remove attachment from email?
Yes
No
☑ Remember my decision" -
JR
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Standard and obvious feature. Lots of great things about Proton... and then there are these inexplicable omissions of very basic functionalities.
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Pertti Suomela
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The email text is important to store with the context, but I prefer to archive the attachments separately.
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Michael C Nolan
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I save the email to record that I've sent it, but often don't need the documents themselves, and they take a lot of space.
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f
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this is must in a good email system.pls consider it asap.
sending the mail to myself is not really it because i need the mails by the original time when they were sent and with the original sender.not all from me on one ceretain day -
Brooks
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yes
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IanL
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It's a basic feature, vital to save on storage space, online and offline. Please can we have it?
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yubi
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yes please, very useful feature... to be able to delete selected attachements and only keep the main body... with at note that specified that X attachment was deleted on date XX
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Tom
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I've never given this much thought... until today. I did a search to see if this was possible and found this thread. So, please add me to the list of clients who think this feature is a good, no, great idea.
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Andrew J.
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Follow-up on the re-appearing attachments after engaging Proton Support:
1. Messages moved from Proton *are not deleted*
2. The message is retained in All Mail
3. The message in All Mail is effectively restored when the attachment-free message is moved back to ProtonWorkaround (untested by me):
1. Copy the message out of Proton
2. Delete (to Trash) the message on Proton
3. Delete the message from Trash on Proton
4. Move the stripped message back to Proton -
Andrew J.
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Not only does Proton lack the ability to delete attachments from a message in the client using the bridge, the PWA or the mobile client, but it forces the storage and re-attachment or those attachments!
When a message is transferred by IMAP to a mail server which supports this basic operation, the attachments are removed (and the message is modified accordingly), then the messages are transferred back, Proton non-consensually modifies the message and re-attaches the attachments.
This indicates that Proton is storing the attachments even after the messages containing them have been deleted. -
Larry
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This is my only problem with Protonmail! Please keep up the good work, but I would really like this feature to reduce usage of data storage. Thanks
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Sorrel
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Came here and made an account to suggest exactly this. Glad to find I'm not the only one who thinks this would be useful functionality!
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WS24
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Really surprised when I found out that it's impossible to remove attachments while keeping the message. It also helps to reduce the size of the inbox. This is a very important feature, please add it.
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Florian Kreul commented
Pls add this feature. It helps to reduce data waste, help to meet the data protection regulation and helps reduce costs because less redundant data need less energy. So it will be also good for our environment.
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Dennis
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Please add this feature. I had someone send me a doc by mistake. I want the rest of the email and the other attachment, but I now have personal information of someone else, and I'd like to be able to delete it. This seems important!
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FC
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I would be able to keep the email messages without the attachments as I feel being able to delete attachments is necessary, for multiple reasons. Security of files, space requirements, etc ProtonMail is an excellent service, but I surprised that it lacked this basic feature found on most other email services.