Thunderbird Attach from Clipboard extension
Attach from Clipboard is an extension for the desktop email client Thunderbird to create file attachments from clipboard content.
If you want to paste clipboard content into emails, you may be able to do so directly. The content is then added to the email body however, and not as an attachment.
If you want to add it as an attachment, you'd have to use another program for that. Say you use the Print key to create a full screen screenshot of the desktop. You would then have to open an image editor, paste the clipboard screenshot, and use the controls provided to save it.
You'd then have to drag and drop the saved file on the email to add it as an attachment. With Attach from Clipboard, you can paste it more or less directly and skip the third-party program altogether.
This works with all kinds of files, not only images. Text can be added as attachments as well, and so can files.
Thunderbird Attach from Clipboard extension
First thing you need to do is install the extension in Thunderbird. Download it from Mozilla's add-ons webiste, and switch to Thunderbird afterwards.
Select Tools > Add-ons from the menu. If the menu is not displayed by default, tap on the Alt-key to reveal it.
Select Extensions, and click on the cog wheel icon in the interface next to "search all add-ons". Select "install add-on from file", and use the browser to pick the downloaded Attach from Clipboard extension. Thunderbird needs to be restarted to complete the process.
Using the extension
The extension's functionality can be used in three different ways:
- Via the File > Attach > From Clipboard menu.
- By using the attach toolbar button > From Clipboard.
- Right-clicking the attachments panel > Attach from Clipboard
- Pressing Alt-Shift-V while in the compose window of the Thunderbird email client.
The extension supports most media types that you can add to emails including image formats, files, HTML and text documents, and URLs.
Closing Words
Attach from Clipboard may be useful if you attach files to Thunderbird regularly, be it images, text files or any other file type regularly.
It speeds up the process significantly if you want the information to be available as an email attachment and not in the email body.
Now You: Attachments or in-body, which do you prefer?
You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!