Rule to delete attachments

[Thomas Henke]

Dear NG,

I regurlarly receive e-mails from one certain person within my
company, where in the subject as well as in the e-mail text the names
of the attached files are given. Since currently I only can access my
e-mails by a 56K modem and the attached files are approx. 1 MB in
size, it would be a great relieve for me to get the e-mail text only.
Is there any possibility to create a rule to delete the attachments
before receiving them? I've checked the existing rules in Outlook
2003, but I could not detect something like this. Anybody to help?
Thank you in advance!
Thomas

 

[VanguardLH]

Dear NG,

I regurlarly receive e-mails from one certain person within my
company, where in the subject as well as in the e-mail text the
names
of the attached files are given. Since currently I only can access
my
e-mails by a 56K modem and the attached files are approx. 1 MB in
size, it would be a great relieve for me to get the e-mail text
only.
Is there any possibility to create a rule to delete the attachments
before receiving them? I've checked the existing rules in Outlook
2003, but I could not detect something like this. Anybody to help?
Thank you in advance!
Thomas

None of the rules in Outlook are applied before the e-mail gets
retrieved. That is, Outlook will first retrieve the e-mail before any
rules are exercised against it. Also, how would any e-mail client
know there was an attachment until it downloaded the e-mail?

You can configure Outlook to NOT download e-mails that are larger than
some maximum size. They won't get downloaded. That means they are
still up on the mail server in your mailbox where you can use the
webmail access to your account to look at them or decide to mark them
after getting their headers (to list them) and then later choose to
download the marked items. In OL2002, Tools -> Send and Receive
Settings -> Define Send/Receive Groups, select the group to edit it,
select the account in that group, enable the option to not download
message over N bytes in size.

Do you really want to jump through hoops because a sender is abusive?
They should not be including huge attachments to e-mail. E-mail is
not a substitute for HTTP or FTP. Have them store the file online and
give you a link to it. Else tell them that you will add them to a
server-side rule to automatically delete any inbound e-mails received
from them. If they refuse to be polite and instead demand on being
abusive, block them. Most e-mail accounts with webmail interfaces to
your account let you define server-side rules (although some of them
really suck regarding potency of those filters).