{"id":67,"date":"2007-06-07T23:02:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T21:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gijsk.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/disable-thunderbird-inline-attachments\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T02:40:44","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T00:40:44","slug":"disable-thunderbird-inline-attachments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gijsk.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/disable-thunderbird-inline-attachments\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Thunderbird inline attachments"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after actually getting a complaint about it, I finally got fed up with Thunderbird sending text file attachments as inline attachments. I’d already been annoyed at GMail displaying things I sent myself inline, making it hard to copy diffs (because the amount of whitespace at the end needs to be exactly right) or easily save files.<\/p>\n

Here’s how to tell Thunderbird to always send attachments as attachments, instead of inline:<\/p>\n

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  1. Open the Thunderbird Preferences (this is under “Preferences<\/strong>” in the Edit menu, or “Options<\/strong>” in the Tools menu, depending on your OS).<\/li>\n
  2. Go to the Advanced <\/strong>section, and the General <\/strong>tab on there.<\/li>\n
  3. Click the Config Editor<\/strong> button on there.<\/li>\n
  4. Enter mail.content_disposition_type<\/strong> in the filter box.<\/li>\n
  5. Double-click the only item in the list (with the exact name mail.content_disposition_type, obviously), and enter 2<\/strong> as its value (instead of the 0 it’s on originally).<\/li>\n
  6. Close the Config Editor with the [x], and close the Preferences with [OK].<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You’re now done. Thunderbird will now send plain text files as an attachment. Any other non-binary files will still be sent inline. If you want all your files to be ‘real’ attachments rather than inline attachments, set the pref to 1 instead. Tip-of-the-hat to Marco for the tip about using 2 instead of 1.<\/p>\n

    All this information was obtained from LXR<\/a> and the MozillaZine KB<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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