Want to use Rules to automatically forward message without attachm

[Guest]

Hi All,
I'd like to use the "Rules" capability to automatically forward email
messages from one email account (at work, which uses Outlook 2003 and doesn't
have any bandwidth limits but is cumbersome because I can only access using
Webmail from home) to another account (at home, which I can use Outlook 2003
to access but has bandwith limitations). The catch is that I want to
automatically remove attachments (because they eat up bandwidth) before
forwarding. I also want to keep a full copy of the messages (including
attachments) in the work account. I can't see to figure out how to do this?
Is that capability under the "Custom Actions" menu? The work IT people
haven't installed that add-in, if so, and I doubt they would do so on my
behalf. Any workarounds?
Thanks so much.
GES

 

[F. H. Muffman]

I'd like to use the "Rules" capability to automatically forward email
messages from one email account (at work, which uses Outlook 2003 and
doesn't
have any bandwidth limits but is cumbersome because I can only access
using
Webmail from home) to another account (at home, which I can use Outlook
2003
to access but has bandwith limitations). The catch is that I want to
automatically remove attachments (because they eat up bandwidth) before
forwarding. I also want to keep a full copy of the messages (including
attachments) in the work account. I can't see to figure out how to do
this?
Is that capability under the "Custom Actions" menu? The work IT people
haven't installed that add-in, if so, and I doubt they would do so on my
behalf. Any workarounds?

I'd simply create an exception that doesn't forward any messages over a
certain size and deal with that when I got into the office.

I'd also ask my IT department if I was allowed to use RPC over HTTP and, if
I was, just use Outlook at home and forgo OWA.

Custom Action is, more or less, just what it sounds like. If custom built
actions have been defined by add-ins, they'd be available there, as I
understand it.

 

[Guest]

Thanks FHM, that's what I ended up doing, but that means that if someone
sends me an important email that happens to have a huge attachment, I'll miss
it.

If I could have convinced my employer to allow Outlook access from home I
would have! They refuse to give me IMAP server details, saying webmail is
good enough. Webmail is NOT good enough, it logs you out every 15 minutes
and is a huge pain to access, esp on a PDA.

Thanks again for the suggestion!
Eileen

 

[F. H. Muffman]

Thanks FHM, that's what I ended up doing, but that means that if someone
sends me an important email that happens to have a huge attachment, I'll
miss
it.

If I could have convinced my employer to allow Outlook access from home I
would have! They refuse to give me IMAP server details, saying webmail is
good enough. Webmail is NOT good enough, it logs you out every 15 minutes
and is a huge pain to access, esp on a PDA.

I'm not talking about IMAP. RPC over HTTP is no different than regular
Outlook traffic, it is just proxied over HTTP. What version of Exchange is
it, do you know?

Also, as for a PDA, first, I'm pretty sure OWA isn't supported on a PDA,
but, if you're using a PDA, why aren't you just using ActiveSync? Pretty
sure that's enabled by default.

And if your email is that important, then you should be able to work down
through the CIO to get access enabled that will be functional for you. I
mean, if you have a legitmate business need, you should be able to provide a
cost/benefit analysis to show that OWA is not good enough.

 

[Guest]

RPC over HTTP is no different than regular Outlook traffic, it is just
proxied over HTTP.
Clearly I have no idea what you're talking about. How do I see what version
the Exchange is? What does RPC mean? "remote procedure call"?

I access OWA through the web browser on my XV6700 Pocket PC. The screen is
tiny and the frames drive me nuts, and it takes forever for the pages to
reload each time I want to open a new email.

I've already gone all the way to the top, and the CIO is absolutely against
IMAP usage - I've even tried many, many times to get the relevant info from
different lower level IT people. I work for the gov't - with all the recent
security issues (even though I don't deal with any sensitive information)
they're not about to let people use "unsupported" mechanisms. That's why
this is difficult for me. Their stance is that for home use, the webmail
application should be enough.

HELP!!!!
(Thanks for your responses, btw)




"F. H. Muffman"wrote:

 

[F. H. Muffman]

proxied over HTTP.
Clearly I have no idea what you're talking about. How do I see what
version
the Exchange is? What does RPC mean? "remote procedure call"?

I access OWA through the web browser on my XV6700 Pocket PC. The screen
is
tiny and the frames drive me nuts, and it takes forever for the pages to
reload each time I want to open a new email.

I've already gone all the way to the top, and the CIO is absolutely
against
IMAP usage - I've even tried many, many times to get the relevant info
from
different lower level IT people. I work for the gov't - with all the
recent
security issues (even though I don't deal with any sensitive information)
they're not about to let people use "unsupported" mechanisms. That's why
this is difficult for me. Their stance is that for home use, the webmail
application should be enough.

HELP!!!!
(Thanks for your responses, btw)

You need a new CIO.

We aren't talking about IMAP.

It isn't the only way to access Exchange 'over the Internet' outside of OWA.

Heck, I don't blame him for not wanting to enable IMAP access. I wouldn't
either. And, to be honest, security is the reason I wouldn't want to turn on
IMAP. IF they have the same reasoning, you'd likely be fired for forwarding
all your mail over the internet to your own personal email box. I probably
wouldn't tell them you're doing it. If you have and they are ok with it, I
have no clue why they wouldn't want to turn on IMAP.

As for OWA over that device, of course that's what it looks like. That's
why Microsoft doesn't support OWA on a pocket pc. It isn't really usable.

Go back to your CIO and tell them that you don't want IMAP access. You want
RPC over HTTP access. It won't help you with your pocket pc, but, it will
sure let you connect from your home pc directly to your server through
outlook without any messy rules.

Otherwise, if you want a rule to strip out attachments, you're going ot have
to find a custom solution as the product doesn't do it itself.
http://www.outlookcode.com to write your own, or http://www.slipstick.com to
see if there's already a solution.

 

[Guest]

You are right on all counts. Hence my asking here rather than at work.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will look into the RPC tomorrow, and also the
other links.
GES