Comments on: Disable Thunderbird inline attachments

By: T

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:02:23 +0000

thank you!

By: talerith

talerith — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:18:24 +0000

Another fix that is not shown. In the config editor there is a value that says: mail attachments inline – boolean- true.
Change this value to “False”. I typed “attac” into the filter to narrow the results. This worked for my .DXF issue!

By: NS

NS — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:35:42 +0000

@BrianB, Gijs:

Actually, there’s a setting for that as well:

mail.inline_attachments

set it to false and it might take care of the issue. (for documents you RECEIVE)

By: Mark Manning

Mark Manning — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:24:42 +0000

First (joking) if it isn’t inline – is it outline?

Second, shouldn’t the option be handled more along the lines of document types? So people could set in/out for each type of file? Default the line to always being a normal attachment but allow the user to change this selection? Thunderbird does this for other aspects of the program – attachments are just as important.

In any event – I am so happy you made this webpage. Thunderbird just started acting weird on me. Turns out – my option was set to zero(0). Now it is two(2). Thanks again!

By: craschworks » Blog Archive » GEEK: How to tell Thunderbird to always send attachments as attachments, instead of inline

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:23:36 +0000

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By: Gijs

Gijs — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:52:09 +0000

BrianB, Andy: The fix is to do with the documents you send, not the ones you receive. If people send you things inline that shouldn’t be send as such, your best bet is to ask them to configure their e-mail client better, as far as I can tell…

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:57:24 +0000

I’m also using Thunderbird version 2.0.0.22, WinXP (Home) with all updates.

I thought this might be the answer to my problem, but unfortunately,
neither value (1 or 2) works for me, even after re-installing Thunderbird !

Such a shame…

By: BrianB

BrianB — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:29:44 +0000

I tested setting the value to 1 and 2 and keeps loading the XML files that people send me inline… Anyone having any luck with XML’s ?? It takes like 20 sec to load an XML and no one ever sends them in a Zip ;(

Thanks

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:08:59 +0000

I am also using Thunderbird version 2.0.0.22, and it worked perfectly for me.

Thank you.

By: Jessie Berlin

Jessie Berlin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:39:03 +0000

Thanks for the post. As of today, setting the value to 2 did not work for me, whereas setting the value to 1 did.

I am on Thunderbird version 2.0.0.22 (20090605).