Yes and you can use rsync instead of Dropbox ($10B)
People are willing to pay for convenience. Your mutt isn’t going to automatically find all large attachment, downsize them or handle inline images, but you didn’t read the article so you wouldn’t know that.
What an unnecessarily combative response. The person never claimed that this service has no value; that’s a strawman you constructed. They’re just helpfully pointing out another (free!) way of accomplishing the same thing for those who might want it.
Doesn't this show the complete opposite of what you intended?
Removing attachments is a standard feature of just about any email client, even extremely barebones/cli ones. That was the point. Yet, Gmail is lacks this convenience. Are you seriously arguing that none wants Gmail?
People are willing to pay for convenience. Your mutt isn’t going to automatically find all large attachment, downsize them or handle inline images, but you didn’t read the article so you wouldn’t know that.