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Thoughts from the mind of Oblivi\ufffdn | Bacteria AS, 20-11-2002:

>Does anyone know how to remove attachments from e-mails in Outlook Express?
>My mailbox get's incredibly large 'cause I'm not able to remove attachments
>from mails. The only solution I find is to delete the whole message, but
>then again I'd like to keep all in/outgoing messages for future references.
>Earlier I used Eudora and then it was no problem since it saved all
>attachments in a separate folder.
>
>With Outlook this isn't a problem since you have an option to remove any
>attachments...

From: "Hendrik Jan Veenstra" <h@...>

>Since attachments are nothing but plain files, I would guess that
>Outlook, just like Eudora, stores the attachments in some dedicated
>folder.  So: do a "find" for some attachment you have, and see where
<it's stored.  Then delete the entire folder if you want...

That's what I thought too, but appereantly OE merge attachments with the
e-mail itself. I don't think there's a work around this, apart from
switching e-mail client that is...