Last seen here two years ago, I’ve just updated Readonly Attachments for Thunderbird 2. It still does pretty much exactly what the last post describes, bugs and all.
Right now I’m just releasing a preview. At this point I’ve only tested it with Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 on Mac OS X 10.5.3; I’ll test with Linux tomorrow[1] and if all goes well I’ll update addons.mozilla.org at that point.
UPDATE: (2008-07-13) Things seem to work fine on Linux, so we’re just waiting for it to clear the review queue at AMO.
fn1. Unfortunately I won’t be testing on Windows. My work laptop dual boots but frankly it’s so painful to load Windows these days that I can’t bring myself to do it. I’m trying to do more with my spare time these days that I enjoy and testing for Windows just doesn’t pass that test. Sorry.
hi, i’m the guy who emailed you many months ago to ask if youd ever update this. good to see. i signed up to AMO to get this. however it doesnt seem to do anything in windows (TB 2.0.0.16, XP SP2). files are never marked read only however i save them :/ any ideas please?
The application=thunderbird part in your addons.mozilla.org links doesn’t work (I guess it used to, since I have such urls in my history too…), so they give the wrong installation instructions. Replacing the “firefox” in the path part with “thunderbird” would help.
It’s 2009, and the version at AMO still says it was last updated in 2006. What happened?
There was a Windows regression that I didn’t care to debug that prevented it from clearing the review queue. I don’t use Thunderbird these days, so I suppose the extension is up for adoption.