Horde 'maintenance'

[Skip Morse]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at kolabsys.com> wrote:
> Zitat von Skip Morse <skipmorse at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi All...
>>
>> every so often when I log into horde it gives me the option to
>> 'perform maintenance' and the thing selected is to delete all old
>> linked attachments (more than 6 months old)...
>>
>> I just choose to 'skip it', but my concern is that I have write access
>> to some group folders that need the attachments to stay there...
>>
>> Would horde go through all folders even shared ones, or just act on my
>> user's folder?
>
> I assume that you misunderstand the feature (though I have to admit
> that it is easy to misunderstand it).
>
> "linked attachments" refers to a special feature of the web client.
>
> Assume you communicate with somebody that you know will bounce message
> with size > 5MB. You would like to send that person a 10MB message
> though. With the Kolab web client you can send the message that won't
> contain the actual attachment but just a link to a file that can be
> downloaded from the web server (potentially with a one time token that
> get's invalidated once the file was successfully downloaded once).
>
> This is what is called a "linked attachment".
>
> If you use the feature then cleaning up such linked attachments
> periodically may make sense. I admit though that the way it works in
> the current client is somewhat annoying. The request should be omitted
> if the user does not actually use the feature.
>
> In any case this will *not* delete any attachments from your mails or
> any shared folders.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gunnar
>


Thanks, that's the answer I was looking for... it IS surprising that
it offers that when I don't use the feature.

Either way, thanks for the explanation, I wouldn't have even guessed
that it wasn't talking about 'regular' attachments!


-Skip