How can I stop the original email being attached to cards created via email?

davidrwood

As of about three days ago, when I create cards by email, the original email text is now  being attached to the card.

 

I don't need it attached to the card. It's already created the card and had all the information extracted.

 

It means that every card created via email now shows as having a useless attachment and the card back is cluttered by that same useless attachment.

 

Brittany Joiner

@davidrwood oooh interesting. i hadn't noticed this yet. i actually think that's kinda useful as I sometimes wanted to see what the actual email looked like and not the blargh-y markdown. 

But if you're wanting to remove that...

Via Trello Automation

I unfortunately don't know of any ways to do that via trello automation. I tried using the action to remove a link, but since its a file and not a link I don't think that works.

You could try using the Trello API with the delete attachment method. Combine that with automation so maybe when a a card is emailed into a board it hits that API. However, couple gotchas here: 1) you'd need to figure out the id of the attachment, so would likely need to do some other actions to get the attachment info, and 2) it looks like this is a DEL method and not POST, so I'm not even sure if it would work with POST (doing an HTTP request in Trello's automation only allows GET and POST).

My hack: PixieBrix

I use PixieBrix, a low-code browser automation tool, to add stuff on top of Trello. It only works in the Chrome Browser, as it's a Chrome Extension, so if you're worried about it on mobile this won't help. But I can make a quick automation that would hide all the attachments section when you open up a trello card. Would that help? Happy to share with you if so.  Note - this would hide ALL attachments, so if you actually want to show some attachments, it might not be the way to go.

Let me know if you want a link to try that out and I can send it over and see if it helps.