User-defined column for inbox messages.

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zzedly

Here's what I want to do. I've got Outlook 2000. Our company
currently has no mailbox size limit for everyone's mailbox. We are
supposed to soon be moving to our parent company's email server, which
has a 100MB limit for each mailbox. An easy way to reduce a mailbox
size is to strip off any larger attachments from messages and store
them elsewhere on the network.

I would like to be able to insert a column into the Inbox and Sent
Items that shows an icon or checkmark next to those message that I have
stripped the attachment from. This is how I envision it: I would open
the message, save the attachment elsewhere, delete the attachment, save
the message, then somehow manually mark it as having the attachment
stripped, and be able to see what messages have had their attachments
stripped in a column of icons/checkboxes in the Inbox/Sent Items view.

How can this be done? I've gotten as far as inserting a user defined
field from the Field Chooser, but I don't know what to do beyond that.
Help!

-=Zzed=-
 
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Christian Goeller

Here's what I want to do. I've got Outlook 2000. Our company
currently has no mailbox size limit for everyone's mailbox. We are
supposed to soon be moving to our parent company's email server, which
has a 100MB limit for each mailbox. An easy way to reduce a mailbox
size is to strip off any larger attachments from messages and store
them elsewhere on the network.

I would like to be able to insert a column into the Inbox and Sent
Items that shows an icon or checkmark next to those message that I have
stripped the attachment from. This is how I envision it: I would open
the message, save the attachment elsewhere, delete the attachment, save
the message, then somehow manually mark it as having the attachment
stripped, and be able to see what messages have had their attachments
stripped in a column of icons/checkboxes in the Inbox/Sent Items view.

How can this be done? I've gotten as far as inserting a user defined
field from the Field Chooser, but I don't know what to do beyond that.
Help!

You can't do it with Outlook but there are many third-party-tools for
this. I use [1] and I'am very content.

[1] http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/attachments_processor/
 

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