Re: Brian Tillman (re: "Directory" answer)

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From: Brian Tillman (tillman1952_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:57:45 -0500

Michael Baglio <mbaglio@nc.rr.com> wrote:

> In a recent thread, you responded:
>> You can control where attachments get stored when you save them.
>> Until you open them, they're not stored in separate files on the
>> client machine.
...snip...
> If I'm understanding what you said, can I _not_ somehow just have
> Outlook automatically download all attachments I receive to my
> "C:\Downloads-Email" directory?

Correct.

> Having to "do something" to store every attachment I get is going to
> spoil this whole Outlook idea in a hurry. Say it ain't so!

It is so. When a message arrived with an attachment, that attachment is
part of the message itself (ALL mail clients work this way, including
Eudora). When the message is stored in Outlook, the entire message is put
within the "Personal Folders" file's Inbox folder. Nothing is, at this
point, external to that file. Eudora, on the other hand, splits the message
in pieces, with the attachemnts being stored in a (Windows) folder you
specify when you configure Eudora. 

-- 
Brian Tillman

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