Vista - how to disable downloading attachments automatically? thank you!

hallo everyone i've noticed that Live Mail will automatically download all
attachments in background and store them when i read a mail. But actually i
dont want all the attachments to be downloaded, i need just to read the mail.
What i want is that Live Mail download the attachment when i need. can
somebody help me? thank you!

when i read a mail, Live Mail will automatically download all attachments of
the mail. I want only to read the mail. that's what i mean.

Sorry, that can't be done. It is all or nothing.
Can you explain the reason for this request? Perhaps we can think of a
workaround.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"mandarK" <mandarK@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:FDC34341-CA70-45BF-8878-B569727F4C30@xxxxxx

thank you for your help! the reason ist, my computer has limited disk space,
but i have a lot of mails, i want only the texts of the mails to be saved on
my computer for a quick look, but the attachments should be leaved on the
server.

when i want to use one of the attachments, then it will be downloaded, but
not automatically like the Live Mail does, better it displays first a list of
the attachments before downloading them automatically, and if i click on one
item of the attachment it pop a Window up to ask me if i want to download?

i think this funktion will be very useful for us. I have not jet used Live
Mail to work with Hotmail, only with other emails which i dont have lots of
attachments. I am waiting for this feature. Thank you

"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

Attachments have to encoded which adds 33 % to the size of the email.
Saving the email in order to save the attachment will use more disk space.
You don't mention how much space that you have on your email server or if
the server is pop, IMAP, or http.
This program works with Outlook Express and can remove attachments from
emails.
http://www.oehelp.com/OEX/Default.aspx

What is your operating system?
I suspect that you have XP or you wouldn't have limited disk space.

Is there a reason that you are using Windows Live Mail?
What were you using before?
What did you do with the old messages in the old program?
Are the old messages still on your computer?

There are programs that will check for new messages and let you view
messages without downloading.

There are no programs that will do what you want.
--
Ronald Sommer

"mandarK" <mandarK@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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yes, there are programs that do what i want. Thunderbird download the header
and text first, when the user want to download the attachments, it does that.
but Live Mail will automatically download all attachments in background, when
the user starts to read the mail, regardless of that if the user will or not.
that is the problem Live Mail has but Thunderbird dont have.

I am using XP, the free space on my drive which contains "Documents and
Settungs" is just only 1 Gigabytes, the other drives are also small, i have a
harddisk of 40 Gigabytes and it is fast full. Live Mail works now with one
server in the uni, not yet with Hotmail, simply because my live mail is too
big with too many big attachments . But when the problem i describe was
solved, i will use Live Mail with Hotmail.

"Ron Sommer" wrote:

You might, especially if you wish to continue to use WLM in its current beta or the next incarnation, consider a larger hard drive
soon.
The beta, if left unchanged, will use much more space for Contact storage than the current rtw/production version.
As an example..
Contact storage on this unit for the rtw version with 5 Live ID and approx 200 contacts uses about 10MB for all Contacts associated
with Windows Live Programs(Mail, Messenger,etc)

One Live ID in use on the current beta(download.live.com) with Mail, Messenger betas installed amounted to 6 times that amount.

While 60MB vs 10 MB for most is not too much of a space concern for many or yours, it might be a significant factor if you've only
1GB of free space, let alone considering any Windows performance issues related to such a small free space reserve. The 60MB vs
10MB is even more surprising since an export of all 5 Lived ID contacts to a seperate CSV file from WLM and also a composite
contact file of those same 5 Live ID's and other contacts in Outlook 2007 exported to a csv file, those 6 csv files total less
than 100 kb!!!

I.e. email storage with or without attachments may be the least of your long term hard drive space constraints.

--
...winston
ms-mvp mail


"mandarK" <mandarK@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:81A1798B-3658-4343-BE8A-E8AD3B22E9B9@xxxxxx

actually, i miss this feature as well.
and for the following GOOD reasons:
- messages with big attachments can take long to download, and i dont want
to wait that long to read a message
- when i'm on the road on a 3G connection or whatever, bandwith is precious
and pricey. so this is the reason i have to use webmails instead of live
mail, cause i cant tell it to download attachments only when i want to
actually get them.
in this respect, thunderbird is better. but i hate thunderbird. so i'm
screwed :P
s.

"Gary VanderMolen" <Gary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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As for your bandwidth issue, you can use a message rule that tells
WLMail *not* to download a message that is over a specified size.
What you can't do is just download the text of a message with a large
attachment. You must download either the whole message or none of it.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Sebastian V." <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:646B1117-809E-41BA-85D9-69374E156938@xxxxxx

Special apps for special devices.
Mobile devices often use a connection that is billed per KB.
With WLM, Microsoft caters to the bulk of their customers who
have unlimited broadband.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


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