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:dan!

Hi,

Does anyone know how to get entourage 2004 to ask before downloading a file
with a pop account? I know you can prevent picture downloads but I was
wondering if it can also be done with files...

Thanks for your time,
dan
 
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matt neuburg

:dan! said:
Hi,

Does anyone know how to get entourage 2004 to ask before downloading a file
with a pop account? I know you can prevent picture downloads but I was
wondering if it can also be done with files...
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There is no such thing as "a file". There are just big messages and
small messages. You can set the Options in your Account preferences to
"partially receive messages over" a certain size; that's how I manage
this. You can then either delete the message or receive the rest of it,
later on. m.
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Does anyone know how to get entourage 2004 to ask before downloading a file
with a pop account? I know you can prevent picture downloads but I was
wondering if it can also be done with files...
Click to expand...

Are you referring to attachments? They can't be separated out from messages
while the messages are still encoded on the server, only after downloading -
which would defeat the purpose. So, as Matt says, just set messages over a
certain size (e.g. 20K) to partially download. That will get you headers and
some text of large messages with attachments (plain text messages with no
attachments are typically no more than 4 KB or so, even HTML message without
attachments usually under 10 Km so the larger messages over 20K will usually
be messages with attachments.) You'll see enough from the headers to know
whether you want to download the whole message or not.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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