I have a family member on dial-up access using Outlook. With Outlook Express,
he was able to create a rule that specified that if an e-mail had an
attachment over a certain size, the action was to delete it from server. This
was done before the e-mail was downloaded thus saving a lot of time when
large attachments were inadvertantly sent.

Now that he has upgraded to Outlook 2007, this is no longer an option. I see
that you can create a server-side rule, but this only seems to be an option
when your server is an Exchange server.

Is there any way this can be done?

Thanks in advance.

Within Options>Send/receive settings there is an option to download headers
only for items larger than **Kb
Maybe that helps

"Dianne Siebold" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a family member on dial-up access using Outlook. With Outlook
>Express,
> he was able to create a rule that specified that if an e-mail had an
> attachment over a certain size, the action was to delete it from server.
> This
> was done before the e-mail was downloaded thus saving a lot of time when
> large attachments were inadvertantly sent.
>
> Now that he has upgraded to Outlook 2007, this is no longer an option. I
> see
> that you can create a server-side rule, but this only seems to be an
> option
> when your server is an Exchange server.
>
> Is there any way this can be done?
>
> Thanks in advance.

"Dianne Siebold" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F6328234-8C9E-4A21-A727-(E-Mail Removed)...

>I have a family member on dial-up access using Outlook. With Outlook Express,
> he was able to create a rule that specified that if an e-mail had an
> attachment over a certain size, the action was to delete it from server.
> This
> was done before the e-mail was downloaded thus saving a lot of time when
> large attachments were inadvertantly sent.
>
> Now that he has upgraded to Outlook 2007, this is no longer an option. I see
> that you can create a server-side rule, but this only seems to be an option
> when your server is an Exchange server.
>
> Is there any way this can be done?

Not with Outlook. Outlook cannot query the server for message attributes and
then act upon a message prior to downloading. Outlook must download a message
in order to act upon it with a rule. Many people use add-ins like mailwasher
or spampal to control server-side content.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]