Feature Request: Automatic Email Attachment Check

Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Dennis Little

Have you ever written an email, told the recipient to refer to the attachment and then clicked “Send” before making the attachment? I do it all the time and it probably makes me look like a giant idiot.

Would it not be great if your email client could check any outgoing email for phrases that might reference an attachment that does not exist and then warn you? Perhaps this implementation already exists as a plugin for Thunderbird, Outlook and the like? Enlighten me if you know. This seems like a feature that the Zimbra team probably already thought of; I am going to find out…

Filed under: Business, Linux, Technology

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4 Responses to “Feature Request: Automatic Email Attachment Check”

  1. Nathan, on January 10th, 2008 at 4:39 pm Said:

    Evolution does that.

  2. Dennis Little, on January 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm Said:

    You know, I did not think to look at Evolution. I think the last I used it was RedHat 8, so it has probably improved a bit. ;) Thanks for the tip!

  3. Jason, on January 14th, 2008 at 8:54 am Said:

    There was a greasemonkey script for gmail that did this as well. I realize that it isn’t an email client per se, but I thought it might help.

  4. Dennis Little, on January 14th, 2008 at 9:04 am Said:

    Thanks Jason! The attachment check script appears to be linked (as number 10) on this Lifehack.org list of Top 10 Greasemonkey scripts:

    http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/top-10-greasemonkey-scripts-to-improve-your-productivity.html

    NOTE: I have not tested this script myself.

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