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How to reply without inline images attached?

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Hi all,

Im using Thunderbird for quite some time now, but have a little setback that makes my e-mail account unnecessarily loaded. I have very long conversations in single thread, e.g. 100 msgs. After a while the quotes of previous msgs get ridiculously long. Most of it is text, so it doesn't make the msgs too big, but sometimes there some inline images attached. And boy, they can weight a lot. So the question is:

is it possible (through options or some add-on) to make Thunderbird NOT include inline images (or other attachments) in quoted msgs when replying?

[if there is also an add-on for cutting off quotes of last emails to some fixed number that also would be great]

Hi all, Im using Thunderbird for quite some time now, but have a little setback that makes my e-mail account unnecessarily loaded. I have very long conversations in single thread, e.g. 100 msgs. After a while the quotes of previous msgs get ridiculously long. Most of it is text, so it doesn't make the msgs too big, but sometimes there some inline images attached. And boy, they can weight a lot. So the question is: is it possible (through options or some add-on) to make Thunderbird NOT include inline images (or other attachments) in quoted msgs when replying? [if there is also an add-on for cutting off quotes of last emails to some fixed number that also would be great]

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you can hold shift while clicking reply to quote nothing from the email you are replying to.

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Thx Matt for the reply, but it doesn't solve my problem. I want to have quotes of previous replies, i just don't want them to be image (attachment) heavy.

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I suggest you try before you say anything more.

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I want to strip the quotes of inline images, not send the reply as plain text.

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