Image resize is needed in Thunderbird for Android

[xmrazik]

Nowadays, photographs have size comparable to e-mail attachment size limit and generally it makes no sense to send 10MB photos in most cases. It is very clumsy to resize images outside the application if one needs to attach them to an e-mail. Please provide the feature of image resizing within Thunderbird for Android self, just like BlueMail does.

[Jon]

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

[kmak]

I strongly support this feature request.

But it's a very old issue. There has even been an implementation -in 2012!- which for some unknown reason didn't make it into K9 (now Thunderbird).

https://code.google.com/archive/p/k9mail/issues/2814

Please, please implement it now to make Thunderbird more usable for normal users. Using another app for resizing before sending mails is to awkward for non-experts.

[SteveVT]

Just adopted Thunderbird Mobile. (previous MailDroid user) Long term user of Thunderbird on pc where Image Resize within an email is a standard feature. Really irritating to have to use a separate app to do the same thing on Android.

[hihp]

I completele agree. I know image manipulation isn't Thunderbird's job, but nobody wants excessive image manipulation — just size/quality reduction to shrink images down to a reasonable file size. 

[Senor_Saras]

This is urgently needed. Many pre-installed camera apps on smartphones never had or have removed the option to change the resolution and/or quality setting of photos and videos. Meanwhile the native resolution of cameras has increased, which obviously results in larger file sizes. It's not uncommon to get JPG-images of 5 MB or more, which is not ideal for quickly sending a few photos via e-mail. Social media apps automatically compress uploaded images and some other mail clients (which shall not be named) at least offer to reduce image file size, so sadly many users no longer have a conception of ​​file sizes. When they get an error message from Thunderbird that an e-mail can not be sent (because the e-mail provider won't allow it due to the size), they are going to blame Thunderbird.

[hatfielddoc]

Agree entirely with above comments. Thunderbird really hampered by this lack of facility

    Ian

[Senor_Saras]

Yes please. Photos taken by modern phones are quite large. Editing images prior to sending them via e-mail is cumbersome and not everyone knows how to do it, so some sort of built-in function to reduce the image size would be very nice to have (at least for common file types like JPG).