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Deleting and Undeleting Attachments

It's often convenient to remove an attachment from your inbox but not the message itself. To delete an attachment from a message without deleting the message itself, open a message and then press `v' to see the list of attachments. Put the cursor over the one you'd like to delete and press `d.' When you return to the index, the index will show a lowercase `d' next to the message to indicate the change, and when you sync the mailbox by pressing $, the change will be committed (and the index will reflect the changed size of the message). This is a good way of reducing the size of mail in your mailbox without having to delete any message text, and once you get used to being able to do this, you'll miss it in other software.



Randall Wood 2009-12-02