It’s nice to see that people still like to use the small piece of software which been wrote for 20 months without updated. Thanks for feedback from

• Uwe, g021030 (at) gmx.net

• Keith Refson, K.Refson (at) rl.ac.uk

And the others how left the messages on the blog, especially patch from Hank Hampel and encouragement from Dick Dunbar.

The new release is now handling in-line attachment as well, and it’s autotoolized and debianized.

You can download the tarball and deb file for Debian sid from

evolution-remove-attachments_0.0.2.tar.gz
evolution-remove-attachments_0.0.2_i386.deb
evolution-remove-attachments_0.0.2.dsc
evolution-remove-attachments_0.0.2_i386.changes

They are tested on Debian Sid with Evolution 2.22.

The software is updated at 2008/05/23.

I use Evolution with Microsoft exchange server in office for 2 years. It’s a pretty good software which is integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality, a groupware suite that all I need for office productivity.

However, when you use a email client for a long time, the e-mails will take more and more disk space. Especially, when you exchange many attachments with the other people. I have to keep the e-mails for record, but the attachments are all filed. I don’t want them to take my disk space anymore. I would like to save some space for really important project. It’s time to get rid of them. I need a plugin for remove these attachments.

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