Any way to strip attachments from archived email?
 

Is there any way to save an email without the attachments?

For instance, I get a nice chatty 2KB note about the recent all-you-can-eat
rib fest from Bubba, with 2MB of photos of gustatory excess attached.
It would be great to somehow "strip" the photos [which I've already saved
outside OE] but keep the text, so I can save it in my OE folder "Bubba"
without that 2MB of extra baggage but with the proper 'to', 'from' and time.

My hunch is the answer is "no", but just wanted to make sure there wasn't
something obvious I'd missed.
I've got my own (PITA) workarounds, but would be interested to hear any
relatively smooth suggestions.

Any way to strip attachments from archived email?
 

Save the message to the Desktop. File | Save as | Desktop | Save. Open it
with Notepad. Highlight and delete the attachment and drag the message back
to a folder in OE.

If you get a lot, this tool does this and more. You might find it
worthwhile.

OEX:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"ggull" wrote in message
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Is there any way to save an email without the attachments?

For instance, I get a nice chatty 2KB note about the recent
all-you-can-eat rib fest from Bubba, with 2MB of photos of gustatory
excess attached.
It would be great to somehow "strip" the photos [which I've already saved
outside OE] but keep the text, so I can save it in my OE folder "Bubba"
without that 2MB of extra baggage but with the proper 'to', 'from' and
time.

My hunch is the answer is "no", but just wanted to make sure there wasn't
something obvious I'd missed.
I've got my own (PITA) workarounds, but would be interested to hear any
relatively smooth suggestions.

Any way to strip attachments from archived email?
 

As Bruce indicated, my OEX program will do that and more.

steve

"ggull" wrote in message
...
Is there any way to save an email without the attachments?

For instance, I get a nice chatty 2KB note about the recent
all-you-can-eat rib fest from Bubba, with 2MB of photos of gustatory
excess attached.
It would be great to somehow "strip" the photos [which I've already saved
outside OE] but keep the text, so I can save it in my OE folder "Bubba"
without that 2MB of extra baggage but with the proper 'to', 'from' and
time.

My hunch is the answer is "no", but just wanted to make sure there wasn't
something obvious I'd missed.
I've got my own (PITA) workarounds, but would be interested to hear any
relatively smooth suggestions.

Any way to strip attachments from archived email?
 

Hey, thanks Bruce and Steve!!
This is much better than my own workarounds, which didn't leave the headers
intact.
It does exactly what I want, and here I thought it was a long shot.

The "Save As.a desktop file" method works like a charm. It even lets me
edit out stuff like the the 5 KB of quoted text from a message with a one
line reply :-))). I'd never have come up with this on my own.

BTW#1 - I found I didn't need to save it to the Desktop. Sometimes I like
to keep temporary stuff like this in a "Scratch" directory. One extra
click, but helps me stay neat.

BTW#2 - This idea of saving as mail/news files opens up a whole new vista
for me of archiving outside of the dreaded and cryptic OE message store.
I've always just saved as text, but that loses a lot.

I'll also check out OEX.

Again, thanks!

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Save the message to the Desktop. File | Save as | Desktop | Save. Open it
with Notepad. Highlight and delete the attachment and drag the message
back to a folder in OE.

If you get a lot, this tool does this and more. You might find it
worthwhile.

OEX:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

Any way to strip attachments from archived email?
 

You're welcome. Thanks for posting back.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"ggull" wrote in message
...
Hey, thanks Bruce and Steve!!
This is much better than my own workarounds, which didn't leave the
headers intact.
It does exactly what I want, and here I thought it was a long shot.

The "Save As.a desktop file" method works like a charm. It even lets me
edit out stuff like the the 5 KB of quoted text from a message with a one
line reply :-))). I'd never have come up with this on my own.

BTW#1 - I found I didn't need to save it to the Desktop. Sometimes I like
to keep temporary stuff like this in a "Scratch" directory. One extra
click, but helps me stay neat.

BTW#2 - This idea of saving as mail/news files opens up a whole new vista
for me of archiving outside of the dreaded and cryptic OE message store.
I've always just saved as text, but that loses a lot.

I'll also check out OEX.

Again, thanks!

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
Save the message to the Desktop. File | Save as | Desktop | Save. Open it
with Notepad. Highlight and delete the attachment and drag the message
back to a folder in OE.

If you get a lot, this tool does this and more. You might find it
worthwhile.

OEX:
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~