Android - How to Download and Save Gmail Attachments on the Memory Card

I realised this morning that you can't download attachments to the SD card in Android 2.2 from the Gmail App (version 2.3.2 at the time I wrote this). I couldn't believe it at first but after googling a bit became clear that I am not the only one that experienced this issue.

Best solution I found online is the following:

1. Install ASTRO File Manager from the App Market
2. Go into Preferences of this app and tick the config parameter "Enable Browser Download"
3. After you do that, every time you press the preview button for the attachment in the Gmail App you will get prompted if you want to open it with ASTRO file download which will allow you to save it in the /sdcard/download folder with the name you wish.

Open .ics calendar events from thunderbird

I just found out today that if you add the lightning calendar addon to thunderbird it starts understanding calendar invites you receive from outlook. You get an attachment in the email called meeting.ics that you can then open with Outlook.

It is very convenient as I still think that thunderbird is the best email client but lightning is very poor as calendar application. I can still use outlook and exchange capabilities while using thunderbird for email. Great!

This is what you get as message after doing that:


You don't have to Accept the meeting with thunderbird, ignore that part and just open the .ics file with outlook and do the Accept-Decline thing there.