If you reply to that email most email programmes will show the text of the original email under your reply. If your does that you can delete the original email and the text will be preserved but the attachment won't.
No doubt there are other ways of achieving that outcome - but the above is the strategy I used when space is an issue Alastair On 24 November 2017 at 10:27, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > I keep ALL my emails, except for junk, of course, but sometimes friends > send me attachments that eat up a lot of space or are things I don't > want... but I want to keep the email part of the email... is there a way > to preserve > the mail in my inbox in thunderbird but delete the attachments? > > someone sent me mp3's of music I can't stand anyway and eat up 8 mgs - but > the person who sent them > is dear to me so I want to keep that mail > > T I A > > ann > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
