Thunderbird add-on for extracting attachments from e-mails
It does two things:
- It saves attachments from selected messages to a folder of your choosing
- [Optionally] deletes those attachments from messages
Who needs this?
If your mail server got clogged up and you want to make room but are unwilling to sacrifice your e-mails, Thunderbird allows you to save attachments as separate files and then "delete" them. This has to be done one-by-one. This add-on enables you to do it in bulk. I would be careful in selecting a lot of messages at once since you might run into resource availability issues (lack of RAM).
Does this delete attachments?
Only if you want it to. There's a separate menu option for deleting/detaching attachments on selected e-mails.
See add-on: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/attachment-extractor/