[X4U] Managing Attachments in Mail.app

[Jeff Porten]

On Aug 5, 2004, at 8:24 AM, Mark Des Cotes wrote:

> In Eudora I was able to "Get Info" on the "attachment folder" to find 
> out how many kb/mb of memory the attachments were taking up. I'm not 
> sure where to look in Mail.

That's because there's nowhere to look -- attachments are stored in the 
original uuencoded format they were sent in, right along with the 
message.  In other words, that 10 Mb TIFF in your email inbox is 
actually stored as an (approximately) 10 Mb hunk of text in one big 
mbox file that holds all of your messages in that folder.

Unfortunately, not much you can do here.  AppleScript doesn't get at 
Mail attachments, so that's out.  What I would do: control-click on the 
title bar of your messages (where it says "From", "Subject", etc.) and 
turn on the size column.  It'll now say "N messages (N KB)" at the top 
of the window.  Figure the text in an email message averages 2-3 K, and 
subtract from the total -- the rest are your attachments.