Offer to resize image attachments (and possibly video attachments)

[luminoso]

When attaching big images files, offer to resize them to a more acceptable dimension/size.

There were a few plugins that could do this:

- https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/shrunked-image-resizer/

- https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/auto-resize-image/

but they stopped to work once 102 was out. They also had some QA problems like:

- https://github.com/darktrojan/shrunked/issues/48

This kind of behavior is already seen in messaging apps like Messenger, WhatsApp, Signal, etc, where images are resized (with the option to send in its original quality).

A nice feature could be to do it also for video.

[Jon]

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[jpurvin]

115.4.2 offers a way to change the size of inline images, but it's inconvenient. You need to select the inline image, click Format on the top menu, click Image Properties, click the Dimensions tab, click Custom Size, doubleclick the number in either Width or Height, change it to 1/3rd its current number (doing the math in your head, e.g. change 901 pixels to 300) then click OK. Wow, what a pain.

I suggest that the Thunderbird team emulate the way Word handles editing images. In Word, you can right click an inline image, select Size & Position and immediately be able to change either the image's height or width. 

[luminoso]

@jpurvin this is not the inline image size. it is actually reducing the attachment size by resizing the image file.

For example, if the original resolution is 5000x5000 (5.2Mb), when the you attach and send it, it will bem 1024x1024 (300Kb) real image size

[jpurvin]

That's interesting. Thanks. I think you and I are looking for solutions to different problems.

Whenever I paste an image into TBird now, it starts out as gigantic image so big that it exceeds the email's visible area. To make it visible to my email recipient, I either have to go through the long process described above, or drag the image's corners in repeatedly to make the image smaller. Both "solutions" do the job for me but both take quite a while to complete.

I think you and I want to see TBird offer both easier ways to make attachments smaller (your primary goal) and to make inline images within emails smaller (my primary goal).

[asdf3]

yes, I had the plugin set to default shrink any image to 1440x2560 if it was larger than that. I work a lot with large images (30MB+) locally, but need to send previews of them regularly.

That plugin was such a time saver for me.

[mlgoodson]

I definitely agree (vote/kudos, etc). This seems like such a basic feature in most email clients. This would be a big help. If I am sending someone a picture that they don't need to see fine details, they don't need a 50MP image that my camera takes by default.  

[anahola]

Me too. I just ran into this issue. Wondered why thunderbid did not ask to resize images and then remembered it is "the other" email client that does it.

Sometimes I have lots of images to send and I am: "Oooh no, I'd like to write this on computer but I need to resize them all. Has to do it on phone instead"

[Freddyknuckles]

I agree whole 100%

I'm a new user and enjoying the app so far however I was shocked that there is no option to reduce the size of attachments. This is almost a deal breaker for me.

I enjoy the rest of the app so I hope this can be implemented in the future.

[Winger95]

I have been using Thunderbird exclusively for about a year.  In previous versions I was able to resize image attachments before I sent the email.  I was using 128esr, but when the upgrade to 140.0.1esr took place I could no longer use "Shrunked Image Resizer".  I cannot find any other resizer that will work on multiple image attachments.  I am a photographer and I send out jpeg images over email.

I am using the esr versions because they were more stable and Shrunked Image Resizer has been working for me until now.  If I cannot find a way to do resizing of image attachments, I will be forced to stop using Thunderbird and go back to Outlook, which is the last thing I want to do.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, Terry