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From: Mike Echo on 13 Oct 2009 18:21
In article <ju59d55lm1sitnr4qu11r2mjhem08aq5md(a)4ax.com>,
SpamNot(a)NoJunkMail.org says...

> Anyone know of a 3rd party utility to remove attachments from Outlook
> Express 6 emails? One that is easy to use yet leaves a filename
> reference behind would be great. Getting too many of those emails
> from friends and family with large attachments that have important
> information in the email that we'd like to keep. But don't need to
> keep the attachments with the messages. thx

PopPeeper allows you to check emails on the server without processing
attachments so you could always view the email and copy and paste and
save the body. You could save the attachment separately (if you choose),
then delete the email from the server. Bit of mucking around, but I
don't know if there is an easier way.

BTW, I have made a bugfix for that random line grabber programme, it is
downloadable from the same place. The filename would be set to blank if
you chose a file to load then cancelled the dialog box, so I have fixed
this.

R.
From: Brian (Groups) on 13 Oct 2009 19:59
On Oct 14, 2:09 am, Fairfax <Spam...(a)NoJunkMail.org> wrote:
> Anyone know of a 3rd party utility to remove attachments from Outlook
> Express 6 emails?  One that is easy to use yet leaves a filename
> reference behind would be great.  Getting too many of those emails
> from friends and family with large attachments that have important
> information in the email that we'd like to keep.  But don't need to
> keep the attachments with the messages.  thx

I often have a similar situation, swapping files for project
development back & forth as attachments. Only the final "product" is
of importance, but the mail body texts must be kept as part of the
development records.

For this purpose, I use Mozilla Thunderbird Portable version 1.5.0.8
(20061025). Ironically, nothing handles the MS .dbx file format as
well as Mozilla does! The way I do it is to drop all the mails of
interest into one OE folder, then import that folder into TB. It
processes all the messages, separating off the attachment as separate
(but still associated) files. You can then delete attachments at will
and (perhaps) reimport the TB mail folder back into OE.

Brian
From: Fairfax on 14 Oct 2009 07:46
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:56:43 -0500, VanguardLH <V(a)nguard.LH> wrote:

>Something else to consider. OE6 is a 7-year old dead product.
>Development ceased back in 2002 with only security updates since then
>(with just one hack from SP-2 for Windows XP to change placement of
>quoted content and signatures). Its development team was disbanded in
>2006. The probably reason why you are concerned about extracting,
>saving, and then removing attachments from e-mails is concern that you
>will exceed the 2GB maximum size for OE's .dbx files. Well, you could
>migrate to Windows Live Mail (WLM), the replacement for OE.
>
>WLM doesn't save e-mails in database (.dbx) files. It saves each e-mail
>in its own .eml file (and each newsgroup post goes into its own .nws
>file). Both of these are text files (so saving them into a compressed
>folder would save a lot of space but I haven't delved into that test
>yet). Instead of using a database (which is quicker for access and
>searches), WLM uses your operating system's file system (which is slower
>to reindex or move files) to save the e-mails as files and uses an
>indexing scheme to keep track of those e-mail files. As such, I don't
>see there is a limit to the message store for WLM. While OE used
>database files that had a 2GB max size, WLM saves to files so there is
>no max size to its message store (beyond the max size allowed per file,
>or per e-mail, within whatever file system used by your OS).
>
>You might want to review posts in the WLM newsgroup to determine if you
>might want to migrate to it as a replacement for OE:
>
>microsoft.public.windows.live.mail.desktop

Thanks for the info but I tried Windows Mail. Out of all the email
clients I tried, I also found that I just keep coming back to OE6,
which is the version I have. Yes, I'm well aware that development
ceased a long time ago but OE is the easiest thing after Outlook to
use. Outlook is my primary email client in many ways but I hardly use
it now because YahooPOPs! stopped working properly a long time ago.
But until such time as I find an alternative to YPs!, OE has become my
primary email client with other issues taken care of with Thunderbird
(which is a great app but not as great as advertised, unlike
Firefox!).

Thanks for the tips, this will help other people. For me, WLM is
bloated and ugly. I've tried it twice over the last year or so and it
sucks big time, for me. cheers
From: Fairfax on 14 Oct 2009 07:51
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:59:59 -0700, "Mike Easter" <MikeE(a)ster.invalid>
wrote:

>VanguardLH wrote:
>
>> Alas, you won't be able to edit the
>> e-mail to insert a link to where you save the extracted attachment.
>
>You could save the family mail item as an .eml, remove the attachment
>and replace it with a link to the attachment, then copy the modified
>.eml back to the family folder to get back into the .dbx. That is, one
>would delete the original mail from its family folder.
>
>But that is all by hand, not a utility, unless one wanted to write a
>little progie/script.
>
>Tho' it sounds like the OP was inclined to just discard the attachment/s
>or even do without any linkage between attachment and mailbody.

Hmmm, that's an idea. However, this seems to go back to the whole
Notepad edit thing which is just too much hassle. After saving to
..eml, there is no easy way to remove attachments that I can find
besides editing in Notepad. Yech, instructions on the web take
several screenshots it's that complexe and that's not my cup of tea at
all. I might not get a lot of messages at any given time but there
are too many to use such a time-consuming way. Unless there's some
easier way to remove attachments from a saved .EML file? thx

>Fairfax wrote:
>> information in the email that we'd like to keep. But don't need to
>> keep the attachments with the messages.

From: Fairfax on 14 Oct 2009 07:57
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:21:38 +1100, Mike Echo <you(a)wish.invalid>
wrote:

>In article <ju59d55lm1sitnr4qu11r2mjhem08aq5md(a)4ax.com>,
>SpamNot(a)NoJunkMail.org says...
>
>> Anyone know of a 3rd party utility to remove attachments from Outlook
>> Express 6 emails? One that is easy to use yet leaves a filename
>> reference behind would be great. Getting too many of those emails
>> from friends and family with large attachments that have important
>> information in the email that we'd like to keep. But don't need to
>> keep the attachments with the messages. thx
>
>PopPeeper allows you to check emails on the server without processing
>attachments so you could always view the email and copy and paste and
>save the body. You could save the attachment separately (if you choose),
>then delete the email from the server. Bit of mucking around, but I
>don't know if there is an easier way.
>
>BTW, I have made a bugfix for that random line grabber programme, it is
>downloadable from the same place. The filename would be set to blank if
>you chose a file to load then cancelled the dialog box, so I have fixed
>this.
>
>R.

Yes, I've use PopPeeper for quite some time now. However, this just
isn't feasible either. Here's the current case - I sent various email
to my family with megs of pictures from a recent family event. It
took 3 messages due to the number of pictures involved and though they
all asked for it, didn't want to choke up their webmail account on the
receiving end, hence the 3 message split.

In this particular case, I want to keep all the emails so that I have
the information I sent the family but I don't want to keep the
pictures attached to the emails themselves since they're already on
the hdd and my DBX folders don't need the unnecessary extra bloat.

So although a lot of situations for dealing with attachments might
work that don't actually involve removing them, esp. doesn't work in
cases such as this so might as well find a solution that just gets rid
of attachments once and for all without having to do it manually. I'd
also hate to pay for shareware for an abandoned app so freeware is
best.

There's got to be a way to do this easily and quickly. It's just to
find the freeware (if there is one, of course ::g::). thx

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