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From: Rod on 28 Feb 2010 15:08
Is there a way to block all attachments from individual senders?

(Outlook 2007, Win 7)

Thanks,
Rod
From: VanguardLH on 28 Feb 2010 16:24
Rod wrote:

> Is there a way to block all attachments from individual senders?
>
> (Outlook 2007, Win 7)

You block e-mails, not attachments. Attachments don't float out in the
cyber ether somewhere separate of the e-mail. Attachments are *in* the body
of the e-mail. You get the e-mail or you don't along with whatever is
inside of it. A VBA macro could be written that would check the sender of
an e-mail (you could need a separate list maintained somewhere or use a
special contact-type folder for that list of senders) and strip out the
attachment but that doesn't alter that you must first *receive* the entire
e-mail (with the attachments inside) before you can strip anything from it.

http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/attachments_processor/

This is one example of many macros that have been written up for use in
Outlook (some others are free but far less features). According to their
screenshot at:

http://www.mapilab.com/images/screenshots/attachments_processor/attachments-processor-for-outlook-4.gif

you can list specific senders. However, you will still have to waste the
disk space in your mailbox quota to store the e-mail with the attachment,
the bandwidth to download the e-mail with the attachment, and the disk space
in your Outlook message store for the received e-mail with the attachment
BEFORE you can start stripping anything out of it.

If you don't want to waste the bandwidth to download large e-mails, you can
configure Outlook to not download messages that exceed some configured
threshold in size. That means you only get the headers for a matching
e-mail. You don't get any of its body. If you later decide to download
that large e-mail, you will have to manually mark it for download and then
manually download the marked items.
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