Adding a file share service to Thunderbird

[jd1008]

On 02/01/2015 04:11 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 02/01/2015 04:04 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>> On 02/01/2015 02:57 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
>>> On 01/31/2015 10:12 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>>>> Often I want to attach a file that is larger than what google will
>>>> allow,
>>>> a limit I configured in TB. And TB will prompt me to use a file share
>>>> service.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is I do not want to use the 2 file share services that TB is
>>>> showing,
>>>> and none of the add-on have my preferred file share server.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone somehow overcome this "apparent" limitation of TB, and
>>>> configured
>>>> TB to use a file share service other than what TB and the plugins
>>>> (add-ons)
>>>> provide?
>>>>
>>> It would help if you told us what your preferred file share service is.
>>>
>> I subscribe to a few free ones.
>> But just for an example, try sendspace.com, among
>> others.
>> I see no way to make TB use sendspace and prompt me
>> for my user id and passwd on the chosen provider,
>> and upload the file I just tried to attach to a message,
>> and if too large, TB prompts the
>> user to use a share service.
>>
> I'm using Dropbox with it via the addon dropbox-for-filelink.  These
> seem to be the only supported services:
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/filelink-large-attachments
>
I did indeed install dropbox, and restarted TB.
It still does not show dropbox as one of the share
services.
So, perhaps you could clue me in on how to make it work.