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On Mon, 26 May 2008 10:21:03 -0500  'VanguardLH'
wrote this -[three times]- on alt.comp.freeware:

>"John" wrote in <news:483ab3b8@dnews.tpgi.com.au>:
>
>> "VanguardLH" <V@nguard.LH> wrote in message 
>> news:g1c5iu$brf$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>> 
>>> For large attachments, you can configure Outlook to NOT download e-mails
>>> that exceed a certain size.
>> 
>> Yes, but it doesn't work. I still get the large mails. Oh well.
>
>Where did you configure the size threshold?  Did you check the 
>appropriate boxes?  This feature has worked for me and many of my 
>coworkers for many years.  If I set it to limit received e-mails to only 
>download their headers if they exceed, say, 200KB, then it doesn't get 
>downloaded if it is 10MB in size.
>
>> The reason for my request, is that I have seen proxy services for Outlook
>> in the past, that activate when Send/Receive is performed. But none let me
>> delete from the server, so I was kinda hoping someone here might know of
>> one. Doesn't seem to be the case. I don't like MailWasher either.
>
>A proxy is meant to operate invisibly.  Proxy, by definition, performs 
>actions on behalf of whomever is using the proxy; see 
>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=proxy.  It does what Outlook or 
>whatever e-mail client tells the proxy to do; however, Outlook will 
>retrieve the whole message whereas other e-mail clients may not.  If you 
>want something that is active to go deleting e-mails up on the server 
>then use an e-mail monitor, as I mentioned.
>
>> Thanks to all for your patience.
>
>You won't get what you want using Outlook.  You'll either need to change 
>to a different e-mail client or add something more into your e-mail 
>setup than just Outlook.

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