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how to drag and drop attachments from thunderbird to online 3rd party?

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Hi

I am trying to move my attachments from my thunderbird email to a 3rd party platform. They have the drag & drop facility but I am not able to drag n drop from thunderbird but have to save to desktop first before dragging n dropping :-(

Are there any email settings I can change to make this process easier and faster?

Thanks Vips

Hi I am trying to move my attachments from my thunderbird email to a 3rd party platform. They have the drag & drop facility but I am not able to drag n drop from thunderbird but have to save to desktop first before dragging n dropping :-( Are there any email settings I can change to make this process easier and faster? Thanks Vips

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drag and drop works with known data types. most folk assume an attachment is a file. It is not it is a mime encoded peice of text. IT becomes a file when it is saved to dropped into the file system.

So I suppose you get your third party software to support mime encoded text in drag and drop.

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Matt
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drag and drop works with known data types. most folk assume an attachment is a file. It is not it is a mime encoded peice of text. IT becomes a file when it is saved to dropped into the file system.

So I suppose you get your third party software to support mime encoded text in drag and drop.

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Thanks Matt for your response, however, according to the 3rd party they are able to have drag and drop facility from outlook mail on a pc, but as I am on a mac and using thunderbird and I wish to drag and drop PDF and .doc/.docx formats from my mail messages into the third party platform, their support team asked me to contact thunderbird to see if there were any email settings I should change, as apparently that is what needs to change if the outlook settings are not correct from outset. Hence my original question :-(

Kind regards Vips

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Hmm, look like I had it wrong.... but that does not help you.

Thunderbird instantiates a file object. For windows at least at the beginning of the drag. However when I search Bugzilla for drag and drop and osx I get a minefield of bugs. your third party application. is is a java or javascript application? some more information about it would help I think.

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Thanks Matt, not sure what it is they use as not techie person :-( they are a recruitment service provider so the documents I am trying to transfer are CV's, so I am trying to get them off my email system to what will become my recruitment portal in the cloud...