Find feature in Outlook Express 6

[lanwan]

If anyone out there has an answer for this question, you must be a genius.

Here goes...I have over 14,000 emails in my inbox all with attachments. Here is the kicker, I need to sort through these emails with attachments and find emails with a specified attachment and delete the rest. I'm using Outlook Express 6.0. The find feature in this program seems to only look for specified messages or subjects.

Can this question be solved???

R.J.

 

[Marcs41]

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[Dlusional]

there's no easy way to do this, but here's a couple of options that may make life easier.

You can sort your mail using the paperclip and this will put all your attachments on top. you'll still have to scroll thru though

You can set up a rule to send all mail with attachments to a specified folder

you can also set up a rule to sort and copy to a folder by priority, assuming of course that some of your mail with the attachments were marked priority.
can also sort by email address assuming that the attachments you want were sent by the same person. or group of persons.

if there's not a lot of people that you're looking for your attachment, then create a group with those people in it, then you can sort using the group instead of using individual

You can copy ALL the attachments to a folder, then sort that way providing you know which ones you're looking for etc...

Takes a bit to set up rules properly, but it's well worth the effort..
Don't envy you that's for sure

Good luck, let us know if you find anything that worked for you,

 

[lanwan]

Dlusional,

Thanks for the advice. Unfortanetly it does not help me. I have all emails in my inbox with attachments and I don't know which emails have the attachment I'm looking for. I have to go through each individual email!!! Ugh!

Ryan

 

[smah]

I don't know if there's an easy answer, but some more info may help someone come up with a workable solution -

If you manually look through all these messages, how will you know when you find the right one? Do you know the filename of the attachment, it's size or type, who it was from, or any other 'sortable' information?

 

[guestgulkan]

Is it possible that the subject of a the message or the message body contains some word/phrase/top related to the attachment.
Or maybe who it was from, who it was circulated to, aproximate date it was received, etc..

maybe the search could be narrowed down to just a few well targeted attempts rather than wading through the whole lot.



maybe a search

 

[Dlusional]

now that's an idea...
if those attachments have fairly similar filenames, you could copy them all to a folder, then using the ole dos trick just
copy fil*.jpg or
copy file.j* to where you need them
or whatever the extension is.

I'm sure that if this company has attachments, then there should be some sort of filename structure.

beats doing it singularly

 

[lanwan]

Dlusional,

In doing this, I still would have to go through each individual email and download the attachment of that email into a folder on my harddrive... right?? Which would defeat the purpose.

Ryan

 

[Dlusional]

Yes, no easy way without spending money,
came across this link...might be something to look into

http://www.sperrysoftware.com/jcAttachmentSave.asp?Source=GoogleAdwords

cut and paste, into browser. this also does already gotten mail, and has rules to search for attachments you want.

another site to check out, and has files that may or may not do what you want is.

http://www.simtel.net/pub/winnt/emaimisc/

click on the filename to get a description of what it does

Good luck

 

[lanwan]

Dlusional,

I want to thank very much!! I found a free program in the second link you gave me called Outlook Attachment sniffer that did what I needed!! Ok, for anyone else that has this problem...here is what you do. Go to

http://www.simtel.net/pub/winnt/emaimisc/

and download the program oas25eng.zip. Now, import all your messages from Outlook Express into Microsoft Outlook. Then run Outlook Attachment sniffer and your golden!! Again, Dlusional...I really appreciate your helpful tips, you saved me at least 3 or 4 days of going through emails by pointing me in the right direction.

Ryan.