The source code can be download from 
http://people.debian.org.tw/~chihchun/2008/05/23/remove-attachments-evolution-plugin-002/
http://people.debian.org.tw/%7Echihchun/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/remove-attachments/

Created attachment 111392 [details]
The source code of the remove attachments plugin

Now that the copyright assignment requirement has been dropped, would it be possible to get this plugin into the evolution distribution?

Ping, anyone?

Pong, where is the best place I can submit the source code? :)

git clone git://git.gnome.org/evolution
cd evolution
<hack hack hack>
git commit -a
git format-patch origin/master
<attach patch here>

Created attachment 134643 [details] [review]
patch for origin/gnome-2-26

was trying to implement new feature, but don't have time lately. So new feature request will be added later.

+1 to the feature.
-1 to implementing it as a plugin.

Please integrate it into the core mailer.

Sorry, I don't understand. What's the problem to have this feature as plugin and any benefit to integrate it into the core mailer? 

Also, is there any document on this kind of policies ?

Ok, I have read about http://mbarnes.livejournal.com/2469.html and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516933  :)

I will find some time to integrate it, the other are also free to pick up this task.

In general, features shipped in third-party extension packages are fine to implement as plugins.  But if you want the feature included in Evolution, it needs to be well-integrated into Evolution.  Plugins don't cut it, they only really let you tack things on... usually poorly.

I'll be happy to help or answer questions as needed.

I am pretty amazed such handy feature has been neglected for some time now (see thread: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205927)

I have read http://mbarnes.livejournal.com/2469.html fine, but as end user I have a simple question: Since Rex Tsai "remove attachment" working plug-in has been turned down (see: comment #8), why don't Matthew Barnes or any other Evolution developer integrates it the way he wants at once?

I have tried contacting Tsai via email because his plug-in download page seems to be currently down. The plugin install fine on Debian but it needs to be complied on Linux-Ubuntu 9.04 (~150 MB of code to install to compile such a small plug-in). In the even Tsai is unavailable, this feature might even never appear in a future Evo. release.

I would be really grateful to the Evolution team either to accept this plug-in, either to take the matter in their hands.

Thanks

+1 to adding this either as a standard plugin or as built-in code, I don't really care which. As long as it's neither, distros will generally not distribute it and users will not use it (or even know about it). This is too useful to be left out.

I've just moved from Thunderbird to Evo 2.28 and I like it so much. But not be able to remove attachments once they're saved somewhere else was a real surprise to me, and what a waste of disk space.
Please Evolution team consider this matter and let Evolution have this important feature it deserves.

Dup of bug 205927, but this one has code :)

Please, add this nice and useful feature.

Salu2

I just moved from Thunderbird to Evolution... and found out that removing attachement is not a standard feature :-( It would be great to have it, I don't want to go back to Thunderbird ! :-)

I have uploaded the plugin for Evolution 2.30, source code and packages for Debian and Ubuntu are available - http://people.debian.org.tw/~chihchun/2010/10/05/remove-attachments-evolution-plugin-0-0-4/

Created attachment 172711 [details] [review]
evo patch

for evolution;

I was asked to adapt Rex' plugin into Evolution master, and so I did. I hope Rex will take care of bugs, if any, reported against the plugin. Due to new strings this cannot go to 2.32.x, thus only for the master.

Created commit 686528c in evo master (2.91.2+)