Questions tagged [attachment]
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Issues with Forefront for Exchange file filter
I have an issue where I want to strip some image attachments from emails.
Using Forefront for Exchange I can create a file filter rule based on attachment name, type, and size. This initially seemed promising as I could filter all messages of type…

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Extracting and saving attachments from maildir, deduplicated
I would like to know if there exists a solution for archiving email, stripping out the attachments and saving them separately, deduplicated?
The ideal would be a maildir-setup, with a script running over the messages, extracting the attachments,…

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Save attachment from IMAP on networkdrive
I'm looking for a solution to save automatically attachments of an e-mail for a specific mailbox on an network drive. Mails are stored on cyrus imap server.
Does anyone know a script or something like this. Maybe there is a way to do this with…

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Why do I have problems downloading some iPhone attachments from Exchange?
Lately I have been getting an increasing number of complaints regarding users not being able to download attachments synced from Exchange with their iPhone.
The iPhones in question are either 3G or 3GS with firmware 3.0 or later. Exchange 2003.
The…

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List attachment count per user in Exchange online (O365)
Is there any way to list attachment usage in outgoing emails of all users?
I would like to run a campaign at our company to make users aware of better options than using an attachment, and having the data to support the campaign (and to measure its…

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Automated extraction of email attachment on Exchange Server
An Exchange email account was created through which I will receive daily emails with three different Excel attachments.
Each Excel attachment has to be saved in one of three different folders.
Can an Exchange Server be configured to automatically do…

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Postfix block double extensions in archive attachment
These days I have problems with trojans in attachments like:
//EZuS.zip//invoice_scan_xcFSuO.xls.js contains a potentially infected object HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Script.Generic.
//TuxX.zip//invoice_YAFFOg.doc.js contains a potentially infected…

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Is showing E-Mail Inline Attachments in Exchange/Outlook a bad practice?
We are currently in the situation that we receive some E-Mails from our business partners containing inline attachments of the file types .doc(x) and .pdf with our Exchange Server.
Outlook does not show those files by default. I know there is a…

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Exchange 2010: Issues increasing maximum email size (smtp;550 5.3.4 SMTPSEND.OverAdvertisedSize)
I have a recently-deployed 1 server windows domain running Windows 2008 R2 Standard SP1 and Exchange 2010 SP3, running on the 2003 R2 domain and forest level. The server receives email through a main and backup ADSL router using port 25 (SMTP), and…

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Exchange 2003 purge old attachments from mailboxes
i have to save space in my server and i thought to purge the old attachments of email, is it possibile with exchange 2003? Thank you

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How can I send emails from the command line with recipient tab-completion and proper file attachment?
A year ago I tried a couple of different email senders because I wanted to simplify sending emails from the command line. There are a couple of tools for it, I tried (I don't remember exactly):
sendmail
mail
xmail
ssmtp
uuencode
some mime scripts…

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Email attachments sent to a group don't show up for some
My boss sent out an email from my Exchange 2010 org and attached a PDF and a Word doc to it. He came back the next day and told me that some of the 8 or 10 people that received this email could open up the attachments no problem. The other 2 or 3…

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Considering MIME Expansion bloat, how does that affect settings for Exchange 2003/2007/2010 message size limits?
Since the mime encoding can increase a message's size by 33%, what is the correct math I need to do to filter messages larger than 45Mb? Is the math needed at all?
Does the math change among different versions of Exchange?

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Why does Exchange 2003 silently reject emails with large attachments?
Our environment:
Exchange Server 2003 Standard, single instance, running on Windows Server 2003 Standard.
configured to not send/receive mail with attachments larger than 10 MB.
NDRs are not enabled.
The issue:
When an external sender sends an…

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Opinion question about security viruses and HTML attachments
In the last couple of weeks my company has been inundated by a group of viruses including an .html attachment. Some of these were subjected UPS shipment, some Western Union. All of them asking the user to click on the .html attachment. Mind you,…

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