Would there be interest in an attachment manager extension for gmail
Gmail/GAD has no method in which you can delete attachments. The only method I have found is to load the account into an IMAP client and manage attachments.
Many people abuse email for attachments. This creates work for me to decide if I want to load the account into an IMAP client and manage the attached file by deletion, archiving, or otherwise. Do I really need to save all the images that are forwarded to me by friends? However, there may be important textual information in the email that would prevent outright deletion.
Would there be interest in a plug-in/system that scanned incoming and outgoing emails, looked for attached files, removed them, sent them to a remote secure storage, and injected a link into the email.
Outbound messages would have a semi private link so the sender could access the file at all times.
Inbound attachments would be a password protected area only the account holder has access to.
With the current free amount of gmail storage, there should be enough storage, sans attachments, to last a lifetime.
I have not looked at the gmail/GAD API to know if this is even possible. A service could do it, but would require the account holders credentials and timing of access could cause race conditions.
Am I filling a void that is not a problem, or is this indeed really a problem?