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Eagle
21st May 2006, 17:28
As you might be aware, for client convenience, most of my design work is carried out via email.
For tax/legal reasons, I retain all emails for a minimum of five years and as you might imagine, my Outlook Express folders are getting pretty bulky what with all the attached images going to and fro'.
Is there any way that I can strip out all the imagery from these emails but retain the text correspondence?
Cheers,
Mark :)
datahound
21st May 2006, 18:00
Do you use the archive option?
Stripping out? Sorry, don't know OE well enough.
But you could archive globally and save to DVD, or archive each job and save to DVD/CD.
Eagle
21st May 2006, 18:56
Archive? I don't hink OE has that.
:)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1645325,00.asp
Eagle
21st May 2006, 19:10
Ah, yes I know about that, thanks. :)
I just need to strip the images out but keep the text.
KM-Tiger
21st May 2006, 19:24
For tax/legal reasons, I retain all emails for a minimum of five years
In which case you should consider a better solution than Outlook Express on a single PC. IMHO OE is very much the "Wintendo" version of Outlook, and you might consider changing to Outlook proper, or another mail client such as Thunderbird. Both will give you the chance to archive old stuff.
If that archived data really matters to you, then the arrangements for storing it must include off-site, so that you are protected from the risks of fire and theft.
Not easy if you are a sole operator, but there is certainly one member here offering an off-site backup service.
Eagle
21st May 2006, 19:57
Cheers, I can archive fine in OE but it's the images I want to get rid of (as they're stored seperately elsewhere).
...hmmm. :confused:
DuaneJackson
21st May 2006, 23:11
I just need to strip the images out but keep the text.
I think the answer to this is that it's not possible.
Subbynet
22nd May 2006, 13:19
The attachments are stored in the inbox.dbx file using base64, which is also the same file the email itself is stored.
You can use a 3rd party application like this one to remove attachments.
http://www.nsware.com/Attachment-Extractor-for-Outlook-Express.htm (30 day trial)
regards,
Martin
Eagle
22nd May 2006, 18:25
Bookmarked for Ron.
Many thanks for that. :)