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Maybe everyone else already knew this. But select a message with attachments in Apple’s Mail.app, and you can use menu option Message… Remove Attachments to, well, remove the attachments and reclaim the space in your email account. With 10.4, if you first save the attachments to disk, those files will retain a ‘Where from’ entry under ‘More Info’ linking them back to the original message. This way, everything stays cross-referenced and searchable, but files are stored where they belong (in the filesystem) instead of as base64-encoded garblygook. By the way, if you, too find yourself in an organization where too many people waste your time, bandwidth, and storage space sending out megabyte after megabyte of attachments, there are better options: YouSendIt or Dropload, Basecamp for more general collaboration, or Writely or Writeboard for documents, and so forth.

Also on the subject of Mail.app, I have to return to an earlier discussion (first part, second part) and note that somewhere along the line, it became possible to do Mail… Preferences… Rules… Add Rule… Perform the following actions: Bounce Icon in Dock. Whether this existed or not when I hacked my way to a solution, I don’t know. I do know, however, that my hack actually seems to work a little better: using the mail rule solution, the icon sometimes starts bouncing even when Mail is the frontmost application, and the only way to stop it is by clicking on the dock icon.

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