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Save emails but not the attachment

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by k.real

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Everytime we save an email the attachment is intact. Others can save emails and it will only contain the name or path of the attachment. This is what we would like to do but can't seem to figure out how it is done in Outlook97.

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by timwalsh

When you say "others," what email clients are they using?

I am not aware of any email clients or servers that store attachments sepearately from the email to which it is attached. If a file is no longer stored with the email, it is no longer attached.

What you may actually be seeing are different methods of accessing attachments. With email clients such as Outlook, depending on the version, an attachment may show up as an icon, or only a name. In other email clients, you may have to click a button labeled attachment to view an it. Regardless of how you access the attachment, it is still stored with the email (hence the name attachment).

by dcho

You can attach a shortcut to the file you want to access in your email. BUT you'd have to make sure that the file is on a shared drive. Otherwise other people you sent the email to will not be able to open the file.

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