I agree, deleting attachments would be really good. I’m sure it would save me a lot of space while keeping the email trail.

I worked for a company that had an optional add-on they’d developed for email. It removed all attachments it found in your mail, identified duplicates and put one copy in a database. It added a link into each email where an attachment had been removed so you could easily get to the deleted attachment. Only catch was you couldn’t go back once you’d started. Saved a mass of space.

I ran it about once a month. Some didn’t, some more often.

I totally second this! There are old emails which are definitely worth keeping but their attachments, once downloaded, may be useless, and they take up a lot of essential space

I am a premium user and I am surprised that this feature is missing. Please add the possibility to delete attachments.

I am a premium user and I am surprised that this feature is missing. Please add the possibility to delete attachments.

I am a premium user and I am surprised that this feature is missing. Please add the possibility to delete attachments.

Deleting the attachments from e-mails shall be a basic functionality. I am a paid user and I am surprised that I must either keep the entire e-mail correspondence together with big attachments or delete all e-mails. Please improve it at once.

Hi, this feature has recently been added in Posteo and it is really useful (save storage, good for planete..!). I hope protonmail will offer a similar function.

See more détails: https://posteo.de/en/blog/new-at-posteo-attachment-browser-with-photo-stream

Outlook can do this. I think it will be nice if protonmail can too :)

Sometimes we have userfull email but with useless attachment(s)

I also agree with D's comments about combining votes related to this request, and to having the ability to remove each attachment individually. I've really been missing this feature right from the start. It's a key-feature of an Emailapplication. Working on this feature will stop me from looking for other emailproviders, like Eudora.

+10 This basic feature is important. On a worldwide level unnecessary data storage equals high co2 emissions.

This feature request has been asked for ages - 2016- and there doesn't seem to be anything done by your developers.

This may be a deal-breaker for me when it comes to renewing my annual subscription. For a modern email system, having a calendar and even encrypted storage is fantastic, but some basic functions within email really do need to be addressed. Being able to delete large attachment but retail the email text is a *basic* feature that every email system should allow without resorting to workarounds or 3rd party solutions

I'm suspecting protonmail is not implement this remove attachment request (requested since at least 2017) on purpose to increase the chance of non paying accounts to reach their space limit and then upgrade to a paying account?

I agree, also with D's comments about combining votes related to this request, and to having the ability to remove each attachment individually.

Yes please. While I certainly expect to up my Plus account, I'd like to remove some huge and highly invaluable attachments. Also for browsing speed and ease for backup/export.

The attachment of deleted mail remains stored. Why that? Show us the path where the attachment is stored. It's already in the download folder, one doesn't need it twice.

I usually archive my emails in custom folders. However, it would be nice to be able to delete any attached documents or pictures. My philosophy for 20 years has been that attachments do not belong in emails: either trash them if transitory or not useful, or conversely, save them on disk in a proper folder classification, especially if the disk in question is also backed up periodically. I NEVER keep attachments in Outlook, for instance. Gmail is a nuisance for this as it does NOT permit the deletion of attachments (to my knowledge).

This option is found in Mozilla Thunderbird. Users can save the attechments and keeping the important e-mails without the attached files will reduce the size of the archive.

Workaround for paid users for as long as this is not implemented:
Download Protonmail-Bridge, set-up Thunderbird (other e-mail clients will probably work too, but I haven't tried it)

Find the e-mail you want to delete an attachment from, copy the e-mail to Thunderbird's local folders. Delete the attachment there. Delete the original e-mail on protonmail. At last, copy the e-mail from your local folders back to protonmail.

For some reason, deleting attachments of e-mails that are still on protonmail would delete the whole e-mail. That's why you need to copy it to your local folders.

One major downside of this is that thunderbird will leave you a message that an attachment was deleted from this e-mail. This message will be copied to protonmail, too. It's a bit ugly, but it works.

Yes, pleeeeeeeease. I like to save correspondence, but I don't need every attachment (particularly since pics and such are often quite large). I'd love to be able to save the message but ditch the attachments. Please, Proton, please?

Attachments to e-mails and images embedded in e-mails can be very large, filling up the inbox.

Once attachments have been dealt with (eg, downloaded to a local PC or device), they may no longer need to reside in the inbox.

Embedded images often are merely decorative and take up unnecessary inbox space.

Request: Allow the user to delete (strip) such attachments and embedded images from the e-mail message, for example through a context click or through item select+delete button.