Lindsley, What exactly are you talking about? What's a "record copy"?
If you need a link from the sent message to the attachment file that was sent (and removed), just make a link yourself, in the message: Press Link button, Link to Existing/File (same file you just attached). For some reason, the link window says "0 files" but it's actually linked. Then send the message. The outgoing rule will remove the attachment but the link to the file will remain. That's your record of the sent attachment. Before you ask: no it it can't be done by script as yet since external files cannot yet be linked by AppleScript. Hopefully that's coming. A script could be written that would append the name and/or file path of attachment files, then remove the attachments. But it would turn HTML messages into plain text, so may not be a good idea. -- Paul Berkowitz MVP Entourage Entourage FAQ Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - 2001 or X. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise. > From: Lindsley Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:30:03 -0400 > To: Entourage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Removing attachments from sent items > > The ideas mentioned are worthy, but can one of the sages comment as to why, > when sending an attachment, the attachment(s) could not be attached to the > record copy (as in sent mail, or wherever you keep these things) as an alias > to what is, more often than not, file(s) on the sender's hard drive or > network. Sure, the outgoing itself must be intact, but the record need not > be. Deleting the attachment also deletes the information as to what file > was sent and when. Having an alias to that file, time-stamped by the > outgoing mail record, would suffice in many instances and not be redundant. > > Lindsley Williams > > On 6/19/03 3:20 PM, Beth Rosengard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi Larry, >> >> On 6/19/03 11:43 AM, "Rtrout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> My Entourage database is pretty huge -- and it occurs to me that this may be >>> due to the fact that I keep a year's worth of SENT mail. >>> >>> Here's the thing -- I often send out attachments, and I've noticed the SENT >>> mail also has the attachment attached. >>> >>> Is there a way to automatically keep sent mail, but not the attachments? >> >> Yes. Make an outgoing Rule: >> >> IF "attachment" "exists" >> THEN "remove attachment" >> >> And move it to the top position if you have any other outgoing rules. >> > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
