thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Support Lemonade extensions for attachment forwarding without download on IMAP

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Description

Expected behaviour

If an email message in a K9 IMAP account contains attachments, a user should be able to forward the email and its attachments without downloading the attachments.
See also https://code.google.com/archive/p/k9mail/issues/216

Actual behaviour

The user has two options: forward the email without attachments; or download the attachments before forwarding the email.

Specifically, this requires the implementation of three Lemonade extensions: CATENATE, URLAUTH and BURL.

I believe that Isode's and Oracle's email servers already support the server side of these. Dovecot supports two and is scheduled to support the final one in its next release (2.3; https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg13450.html ), which should make this far more ubiquitous.

Trojita (and therefore Ubuntu Touch's email client) supports this feature:
https://github.com/benkaiser/trojita/blob/master/docs/masters/mobile-imap.tex

Other useful background on this can be found in the Mail in a Box issue about this:
https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/issues/801

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the CATENATE, URLAUTH, and BURL Lemonade extensions and the linked K-9 Mail, Trojita, and Mail-in-a-Box references. Done means an email in an IMAP account can be forwarded with its attachments without downloading them first, while preserving the existing option to forward without attachments.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
kotlin
Domain
mobile-dev, networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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