Removing attachment from incoming email

S

sanjay

Removing attachment from email , does this attachment occupy space on
computer? To free the space , Do we have to take some action , similar to
"empty recylce bin",
 
V

VanguardLH

sanjay said:
Removing attachment from email , does this attachment occupy space on
computer?

Just where did you think that attachment was? Floating out in cyber
etherspace somewhere? Look at the Size column for the e-mail.
To free the space , Do we have to take some action , similar to
"empty recylce bin",

If you saved the attachment or don't want it: Open the message, Edit -> Edit
Message, right-click on the attachment and Remove.
 
V

VanguardLH

Nick said:
With the help of Attachments Processor for Outlook
you can remove attachments from the incoming messages or extract and save
them to your hard disk.

http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/attachments_processor/

I wasn't asking. You replied to the wrong post in this thread.

Mapilab's add-on costs $39. There is a free attachment save add-on at
http://www.kopf.com.br/outlook/. Although it is an add-on, that is just an
interface to the main program that runs separately (this is not an automatic
save utility when you receive e-mails and instead you run it manually when
you want to strip out the attachments). You can also get free VBA macros to
use in Outlook. Which one you want depends on what features you want.
However, if all you are do are a couple e-mails over, say, a year then
saving and editing the e-mail to remove the attachment isn't much more
difficult than having to define a macro in Outlook or click on a toolbar
button for it (especially considering what it takes to add the macro in the
first place).

Setup and usage over time should be less then what you expect when manually
doing the individual save-and-edit operation. I might remove an attachment
from many a couple e-mails over the span of several years worth of e-mails
so destabilizing Outlook with additional add-ons isn't worth it to me. The
OP never mentioned the frequency at which he needs to remove attachments
(and then following with a compact operation to actually reduce the size of
his .pst file).
 

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