Thursday, July 30, 2009

Thunderbird 3 attachment reminder

Today I got scared by Thunderbird 3 (beta), when it brought the following pop up when I was trying to send an email:



Huh?
Well at first I just hit "No, Send Now", because I never intended to attach a file...

Hours later it did it again with a different email, still did not want to attach anything.
Couldn't find any pattern when it would come up with the pop up or not.

Then I tried it out (could've googled it of course):
When the email you send contains the wort attached or attachment (or variations a I guess), but there is no attachment, Thunderbird assumes, you just forgot it... and warns you.

Try it yourself: Send an email that says "Attached you'll find nothing" to yourself, and voila...

Cool...

3 comments:

Nose said...

uh-oh, starting to "think" and "assist" like clippy...
"It seems you are writing a letter. Do you want to learn more about writing letters?"

I dont like that.

Trevor Rundell said...

This also bothered me. You can turn it off by going Tools > Options > Composition > General and uncheck 'Check for missing attachments'.

Roman said...

Trevor,
I don't wont to turn it off.
At least not yet ;-)

But thanks for the pointer to the options... I missed that one...
You can actually configure the keywords there... excellent.