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Hi,

I know this probably isn't the proper forum to ask this, but I try anyway...
;)

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...

(...and no, I am not particularely interested in changing e-mail client).

Any suggestions appreciated!

Regards,

Obi

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Thoughts from the mind of Obliviän | 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...

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...

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
Omega Art: http://www.ision.nl/users/h/index.html

> 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...
> 
> (...and no, I am not particularely interested in changing e-mail client).
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated!
> 


Hi,

Here (Entourage/MacOS/ German) there´s a command <delete attachments>, you
will find it (hopefully) under <news>. I translated the name from my german
version, so I´m not sure about the real menu name.

Hope this helps.
Achim
-- 
achim lindermeir 
www.schaltraum.com

Thoughts from the mind of achim lindermeir, 20-11-2002:

>I translated the name from my german version, so I´m not sure about 
>the real menu name.

Ah, you mean German is not a _real_ language...?  That's what I 
always tried to tell my highschool teachers, but they never agreed... 
:-)

Verzeihung... Ich mache nur Spass...

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
Omega Art: http://www.ision.nl/users/h/index.html

am 20.11.2002 11:55 Uhr schrieb Hendrik Jan Veenstra unter h@...:

> Ah, you mean German is not a _real_ language...?  That's what I
> always tried to tell my highschool teachers, but they never agreed...
> :-)

LOL
That´s what I told mine, too. Then they told me to become a musician .-)

Cheers,
Achim
-- 
achim lindermeir 
www.schaltraum.com

Hi OB,

I'm in version 5.5 and there's a command in the "message" menu that says
"remove all attachments"... That's what I use.

> Does anyone know how to remove attachments from e-mails in Outlook Express?

> Obliviän | Bacteria AS

> From: "teddybut" <kumpkin@...>
>> I'm in version 5.5 and there's a command in the "message" menu
>> that says "remove all attachments"... That's what I use.
> 
Obliviän wrote
>>> Does anyone know how to remove attachments from e-mails in Outlook
> Express?
> 
> Hmm, I don't get it... I can't find anywhere to remove attachments. I am
> using Outlook Express 6.00.2800 (WINXP Prof).

Well, you're on Windows. It's weird that Microsuck didn't give you Windows
people a full featured free version like they gave us Mac people. who would
have thunk that in a million years?

teddybut

> > > From: "teddybut" <kumpkin@...>
> > > > I'm in version 5.5 and there's a command in the "message" menu
> > > > that says "remove all attachments"... That's what I use.
> >
> > > Hmm, I don't get it... I can't find anywhere to remove attachments. I am
> > > using Outlook Express 6.00.2800 (WINXP Prof).
> >
> > Well, you're on Windows. It's weird that Microsuck didn't give you Windows
> > people a full featured free version like they gave us Mac people. who would
> > have thunk that in a million years?


Personally I think you're both insane for using Outlook Express at all :-) 
Though using M$ products on a Mac seems even more strange than using them 
in Windows..

> 
> 
> 
>>>> From: "teddybut" <kumpkin@...>
>>>>> I'm in version 5.5 and there's a command in the "message" menu
>>>>> that says "remove all attachments"... That's what I use.
>>> 
>>>> Hmm, I don't get it... I can't find anywhere to remove attachments. I am
>>>> using Outlook Express 6.00.2800 (WINXP Prof).
>>> 
>>> Well, you're on Windows. It's weird that Microsuck didn't give you Windows
>>> people a full featured free version like they gave us Mac people. who would
>>> have thunk that in a million years?
> 
> 
> Personally I think you're both insane for using Outlook Express at all :-)
> Though using M$ products on a Mac seems even more strange than using them
> in Windows..

whatever, it works... who cares. I am, in fact, insane, by the way, so...

teddybut

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 12:41  AM, logic-ot@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:

>  Jeremy Martin <martje@...>
> Subject: Re: Re: Outlook Express (Remove attachment)
>
>
>>>> From: "teddybut" <kumpkin@...>
>>>>> I'm in version 5.5 and there's a command in the "message" menu
>>>>> that says "remove all attachments"... That's what I use.
>>>
>>>> Hmm, I don't get it... I can't find anywhere to remove attachments. 
>>>> I am
>>>> using Outlook Express 6.00.2800 (WINXP Prof).
>>>
>>> Well, you're on Windows. It's weird that Microsuck didn't give you 
>>> Windows
>>> people a full featured free version like they gave us Mac people. 
>>> who would
>>> have thunk that in a million years?

This is the oddest conversation...the full featured Outlook was given 
to PC users.  The Mac users got the scaled down version.  But really, 
the only difference between the two was:
A Calender...that was it...Yet both are virtually Identical.
>
> Personally I think you're both insane for using Outlook Express at all 
> :-)
> Though using M$ products on a Mac seems even more strange than using 
> them
> in Windows..

That is close to being the oddest thing I have ever read.  Especially 
since MS Word and Excel were originally created on the for Mac 
platform.  They were just not owned by MS at the time. Yet Outlook was 
released at the same time for both platforms.

Anyway...
Me Mac, me have used Outlook in the past...no more now...but in the 
past, yes.

Here is why...at the time I found it annoying to keep browsers open for 
emails.  So I opted for an email app.  Used Eudora for a while, then 
found it quite annoying.  Learned of Outlook and found it pleasing, at 
the time.  I don't use it anymore, since OSX has Mail, and that is one 
less thing to bother downloading or keep track of...if I did a system 
overhaul.

But Outlook on the Mac is decent product...really.  You could import 
contact list from ANY other email application, and import ALL your past 
emails right into Outlook.  It's a good product whether Mac or PC.  But 
me, I am just trying to stay away from as much third party crap as I 
can.

Though the problem with Outlook for Windows was vulnerability...that is 
how that nasty "I Love you" virus made its way around.  Yet, again, the 
famous MS "we sacrifice security for functionality".

Peace,
Alexis

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...

>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...

That among other things is why I use Eudora.  Back to the original 
question I find Eudora works great for grouping threads and i use it 
that way all the time.  Also it is dead easy to create filtered 
inboxes.  My one complaint is there is a bug in that it seems to take 
about 30 seconds between the time mail is DLed and it appears in the 
inbox unless you click on the Task Progress window which makes it 
update the inbox immediately.

Thoughts from the mind of Dennis Gunn, 01-12-2002:

[Eudora]
>My one complaint is there is a bug in that it seems to take
>about 30 seconds between the time mail is DLed and it appears in the
>inbox unless you click on the Task Progress window which makes it
>update the inbox immediately.

Not so over here.  In the Settings dialog, I've got an item 
"Threading".  Click it, and you'll have a.o. the option "wait time 
before delivering".  Set it to zero.  That might solve the problem -- 
or at least: that's the only Settings option I could find that might 
explain why I don't experience such a lag and you do.



-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
Omega Art: http://www.ision.nl/users/h/index.html