[WinMac] IMAP email and attached files

Tom Roth(tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 15:08:35 -0500

Our organization recently switched over to an IMAP mailserver (Netscape)
and is having us use Netscape Communicator on the client end as well.
So far so good. We used to use Eudora with the POP protocol which would
of course download email onto that local computer. Now with IMAP we can
leave the mail on the server which allows us to access and read the same
mail from multiple places. This is great for our Biomed email account
since I can check the mail on my Mac or on our NT workstation or my
coworker can do the same from his computer and we're both looking at the
same Inbox, Outbox, etc.

Now the problem. Our clients send us attached files and sometimes they
are quite large. We tell them to limit their attachments to 2MB or less
and if they are bigger use our web site file upload. They don't listen
of course. What I really need to do is to be able to get the attached
file off of the mailserver completely but then leave just the email
message on the server. That way we still can read & reply from any
computer but the attachment isn't taking up all the disk space on the
server.

Does anyone know if you can delete an attached file without deleting the
email message? I'm using Netscape Communicator 4.5 and I just finished
playing around with Eudora 4.2 and neither of them seem to have this
option of deleting just the attachment. They want to delete the
message, attached file and all. I've been all over the Netscape site
and have not found a way to do this. If anyone has an answer or any
suggestions I'm listening.

TIA!

 ______________________________________________________________________
 Tom Roth Wake Forest University School of Medicine
 tomroth@wfubmc.edu Dept of Biomedical Communications
 http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/ Medical Center Blvd
 Tel 336.716.4493 Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
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