Re: How to remove *all* attachments?

From: Mark Arnold [MVP] (mark_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:23:22 +0100

"Dan Lawrance" <dan.lawrance@centurion.co.uk> wrote:

>We have an Exchange 5.5 server which is due to be
>replaced by an Exchange 2003 server in a couple of
>months.
>
>We have a requirement to remove all attachments from all
>incoming emails (either to everyone or to a given
>mailbox). We don't care what the extension is, we don't
>care about the size, we don't care who it's from, and we
>don't care whether it's clean or not from a virus point
>of view (at this stage).
>
>Is this possible just using Exchange? We are using
>Outlook from Office XP to monitor the mailboxes, but an
>in-house POP3 program on another server grabs and
>processes the emails, and it's becoming choked by
>attachments, none of which we need or are interested in.
>We're looking at 11,000 emails an hour, so manually
>deleting them in Outlook is not an option.
>
>An alternative is to somehow just retrieve body and not
>attachment, but I'm not aware of a way of doing this
>(specifically with POP3).
>
>Please email me if you have a solution -
>dan.lawrance@centurion.co.uk

then use something like Mail Essentials or Mail Marshall etc sitting
in front of Exchange to pull everything out.
Small Business Server 2003 gives the cabability to pull out certain
attachments but if youo're using normal Exchange you'll need a 3rd
party app in front of Exchange.

Mark Arnold MCSA MCSE+M MVP,
FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exchange.htm
Blog: http://www.msexchange.me.uk

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