Really, now.

[brooksmoses]

Just how hard would it be to write a Thunderbird plugin that checks outgoing emails for phrases such as "attached is" or "I have attached" or whatnot in unquoted text, and if it finds them checks the email to see if there actually is an attachment -- and, if the phrases are present but no attachments, pops up a dialog box saying, "Did you mean to add an attachment?"

Sigh. It couldn't be harder than fixing the part of my brain that's always forgetting the attachments.

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to make it a habit that if I want to send an attachment, I attach the file *before* writing the message.

This gives me a, err, much better success rate.

[zeborah]

Oh yes, me too. Also I'm trying to convince myself never to procrastinate on choosing a subject line.

[surelars.livejournal.com]

Yes, that. Also, writing the Subject: line after I write the body of the email vastly increases the chance that my mail has meaningful subject lines.

But then I do depend of my mail client telling "yo - no subject? Sure you want that?"

[redbird]

I should do that. Especially as I'm using a no-longer-supported email client, so nobody's writing any upgrades or add-ons.

[mschlock.livejournal.com]

Attach first, write email next, type in email addresses last, just in case Outlook decides to try to send the mail when it's still half done (I am still unclear which damn keyboard shortcut does that but it's clearly close to "save message").

Lameness.