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by david 1 view

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One of our users has a hand held computer with service through Omnisky. The problem is that her Omnisky mailbox has a limit on it. (not sure of the size) Her Outlook is setup to forward all mail to the Omnisky account. What happens is that when her Omnisky account is full it sends back an email saying it is full, then our Exchange server forwards that to Omnisky, then Omnisky sends back an email saying it is full then our Exchange server forwards that. This keeps going until our Exchange server logs fill up the disk and shuts down.
She normally keeps Omnisky mailbox clean but if she receives a couple good size attachments this fills her up.

I know that in the rule in Outlook we could modify it not to forward email's with attachments. She does not really need to see the attachments on her Omnisky but would like the text from the email to show up.

I am looking for something that will strip the attachment but still send the text of the message.

Any ideas.
Thanks.

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by zalog

You can set up rules using the rules wizzard in outlook. The first thing I would do is to set up a rule not to forward the message saying the OmniSky mail box is full. There is probably some common identifer in the subject that can be used to identify these items. This will prevent the server from bouncing messages. You can also prevent messages larger than a given limit from being forwarded. Does she need the messages with attachments? You may want to exclude these items.

With someVBA code you could extend the functionality to stop sending messages when the total size exceeds your limit.

by david

I love this site. Never dawned on me to filter out the bounced e-mail by subject in the rule. Thanks

by suemvp

You might want to look at some of the tools that can forward information to a pager, because they won't send the attachment. See http://www.slipstick.com/addins/pager.htm. The Microsoft Outlook Mobile Manager does even more -- intelligent compression of the message text. It's free while in beta.

by guru kumar

Hi !

Regarding your problem, there can be solutions by setting the Rules so that when the Mail Box is full and it gets bounced, it will not forward the message with the specified word in the subject or any other condition.

As far as i know , there is no Rule setting such that when a mail comes which has an attachment, it can delete or save the attachment to the specified folder and send the message.

If you want this to be done then there are Tools which can do this.
I am giving you a link to the site which has this facility tool. You can go there and see the necessary details.

http://www.e247.com

Go to this site. You will get the tool for Deleting the attachment or saving it to the specified folder.

Best of Luck.

Guru

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