Out of Office stripping of attachments?

[David Smith]

Hi, I need an OOO rule that forwards all mail to a Blackberry; however, it
would make lots of sense for this client to strip off any attachments before
forwarding the mail on. Anyone any thoughts on how to do this please?

Cheers

David Smith
MCP MCDBA MCSE

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

That's not possible with an Out of Office rule. You'd have to leave Outlook running and use VBA code or a third-party add-in.

 

[John C. Harris, MPA]

Pretty sure that's not possible to strip attachments, or at least I have not
found a way to do it. Maybe with separate code.

 

[David Smith]

Thanks to you both for the reply, however my original problem was one of OOO
rules not working properly.
I had set up a rule that said, if any incoming e-mail had an attachment
(using the advanced properties page in the oo wizard), then it should be put
into a special folder (mailbox) and I ticked the box that said 'Do not
process subsequent rules'. Any mail that didn't have attachments went past
this rule to a second rule which forwarded them to the mobile
phone/blackberry account. However, this just doesn't work - with mail coming
in that had an attachment being proceesed by both rules).

I thought my idea of stripping the attachment off to be simpler although to
be fair, I hadn't seen anywhere to have set this up.

Kind regards


David

That's not possible with an Out of Office rule. You'd have to leave Outlook
running and use VBA code or a third-party add-in.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I get the same results here on an Exchange 2000 mailbox with a rule created with Outlook 2003 SP1. Not expected at all. What version of Exchange and Outlook are you using?

As a workaround, you can create similar rules in Outlook's Rules Wizard that will do what you want, but you'll have to remember to turn them on and off manually.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[David Smith]

Thanks for looking into that. Yes, the client (customer) has an Exchange
2000 Server SP3 with Outlook 2002 - not sure about the service pack on the
Outlook client.
The only difficulty is that the client has a laptop - with his Outlook on -
and so if you were trying to do this with normal Outlook rules, the PC would
have to be on I'm assuming and of course he wants to take it with him.

Thanks for your help anyway. Any other ideas and I would be very grateful.

Kind regards

David


I get the same results here on an Exchange 2000 mailbox with a rule created
with Outlook 2003 SP1. Not expected at all. What version of Exchange and
Outlook are you using?

As a workaround, you can create similar rules in Outlook's Rules Wizard that
will do what you want, but you'll have to remember to turn them on and off
manually.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Your assumption is happily incorrect. Such rules can run fine on the server. (See http://www.slipstick.com/rules/serverbased.htm)

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers