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Prevent Thunderbird from trying to display large plain text attachments

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Mar 15, 20266487 views

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I have a coworker who loves sending large plain-text tab-delimited data files by e-mail instead of our network share. The problem is that Thunderbird hangs while it renders all of that text into the message view window, making my inbox unhappy for minutes at a time. Ideally, I'd like to disable vie…

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I'd be fine disabling viewing of all text attachments Clear View -> Display Attachments Inline

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Prevent Thunderbird from trying to display large plain text attachments

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