If you have multiple messages, its a lot easier with my OEX program to do
this. A single button click will do it for the entire folder. See
www.oehelp.com/OEX/

steve

"CWLee" wrote in message
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"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM"
wrote ...

Save the message to the desktop as an EML file. Edit it
with notepad to
remove the attachment. Then you can drag it back into OE
or save it outside
OE.

Wow! I tried that and it worked. As a novice it took me a
while to figure out each step, and to locate Notepad, but
eventually it all came together just fine. Many thanks.

Best regards, Chuck Lee.

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"CWLee" wrote in message
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To conserve disk space, from time to time I'd like to
save
an email message, but not one or more attachments that
arrive with it. Currently, (and as originally suggested
by
someone on this site) I forward the message to myself
without the attachment. That procedure works, but since
I
sometimes do it days or weeks after the original message
was
received, the date/time sequencing is thrown off.

Is there any easy way to remove attachments from an
email
message?

(I'm using W/2000, Outlook Express.)


Save the message to the desktop as an EML file. Edit it
with notepad to
remove the attachment. Then you can drag it back into OE
or save it outside
OE.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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