Thunderbird and Apple Mail Drop
I've recently added my iCloud account to Thunderbird, and can use this along with my other accounts, yahoo, gmail and so forth.
icloud.com, however, has a useful feature, which is that if you try to send an oversized attachment - anything up to 5Gb - it will automatically send it via Apple's Mail Drop facility: that is, it will store the attachment for 30 days and incliude with your email a link from which to download it.
This also works with Apple's Mail app, but it doesn't work with Thunderbird; with Thunderbird I just get the familiar 'attachment too large' warning, and the email is not sent.
My question is twofold: first of all, should it work? i.e. is there something I haven't done properly in setting the icloud account up; secondly, if it's technically not possible for it work, why is that? I don't understand the mechanisms of internet connection to know why this might be.
Thanks in advance to any experts on this topic!
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Hi Andy,
Apple must have programmed Mail for this function. Maybe other e-mail programs could support it. I don't know.
Thunderbird has other ways of doing the same thing. Unfortunately, they require some set-up:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/filelink-large-attachments
Rick
Thanks, Rick, I didn't know about Filelink, that may ultimately be the answer.
Andy Murkin said
Thanks, Rick, I didn't know about Filelink, that may ultimately be the answer.
But apparently you do not know about addons. BTW I really know nothing about apple products. I just refuse to pay an apple tax for a somewhat pedestrian products.
See https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/filelink-provider-for-owncloud/?src=search