+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.

i agree completely. this should be a basic function. to be able to mantain the message chain without the cumbersome attachments. please correct this ASAP. it may be a dealbreaker. thanks.

So weird that this has not been implemented yet, especially considering how long people have been asking for this.

I'd really like to save some storage space and going through all the mails with attachments 1 by 1 is a bit of a pain in the...

This is an essential and basic function, as protonmail repeats attachments with every reply. I prefer to archive my email correspondence, and even with a relatively small (1MB) attachment, a lengthy chain quickly becomes unnecessarily large.
See also:
https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/suggestions/20584708-reply-without-attachments-by-default

1) delete all attachments with one click
2) UNDO deleting something in mailbox within 10 seconds (like in telegram). The same as UNDO sending within 10 seconds =)

Must have. Basic stuff.

It would be great if you could remove attachments from both sent and received mail, to save space, after they have been downloaded.

It is not always necessary to store every attachement of an e-mail, esp. in outgone mails. So far I dont see the possibility of deleting them separately and keeeeeping the mail itself.

Please come on! This is a very amateurish thing... Why should one *not* be able to delete unwanted files from ones inbox without deleting correspondence as well? People has asked about this since 2017...