Thanks to everybody who contributed ideas.
According to Michael's suggestion, I deleted the contents of a large 
picture attachment with the FC/2 editor, and the result is satisfactory: 
It still shows the name of the former attachment which is good to have 
as a record. It will be easy to write a little (Virtual) Pascal program 
to delete the index file, make a backup copy, strip the mail file of 
attachments positioned between lines beginning with the corresponding 
"---------..." boundary string while preserving the first six lines, and 
maybe prompt for each deletion giving sender, recipient, subject and 
date/time. If I feel up to it, I might even add a Sibyl GUI...
Thanks again to everybody! I'll first have to do some work for a 
customer who pays me for it but I'll find time for this project maybe 
next week, and shall keep this forum posted about the progress in case 
anybody else is also interested in using such a utility.
Best regards,
Stephan

Michael DeBusk wrote:

>I have, in the past, done so with a text editor. The mail file is plain text,
>so it's possible -- if you understand the structure of the file -- to cut
>pieces of it away.
>
>Make sure Mozilla is closed, and delete the index file in the mailbox
>directory. Also make sure to use a text editor that does not convert EOL
>characters and does not append a Ctrl-Z to the end. (I use FTE.)
>  
>



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