Forwarding without attachments; can it be done?

[tmckeown]

I have a number of users that have their email forwarded to an external email address. I did this by setting up mail enabled contacts for their external email addresses. It all works fine accept that I need to filter out the attachments. We get a ton of large files every hour. The senders are getting non-delivery reports from the external email addresses due to storage limitations. The user does not get the new mail due to their external mailbox being full. I need to filter the attachments out on a user by user basis.

Does anyone know of a way to filter out the attachments when forwarding mail to external addresses?

Thanks,
Tom

 

[tmckeown]

Are there no replys because this is so simple that I should know it? Or, is it that no one else knows how to do this either?

 

[tmckeown]

I'm still hoping for any reply.
Thanks

 

[xmsre]

Message size limits will transfer the error to your server instead of the distant end. If you want to strip attachments on outbound mail, you'll need a third party product.

 

[tmckeown]

Thanks xmsre,
I had a feeling that I would have to get third party software for it. I looked and looked but could find no function for this in Exchange.

Bummer

 

[jameskdc]

Tom,

I have exactly the same situation with 2 of my users that collect email on the road using a nextel blackberry phone. If you find a decent 3rd party solution, can you let me know what it is?

Thanks,
James

 

[tmckeown]

That's exactly my problem too. Our GM has a Nextel Blackberry. It fills up before noon each day, so messages get bounced back as undeliverable. I have not done much research into it yet, but I need to soon.

Tom

 

[adamdoesit]

Though stripping attachments would be a more elegant solution, I've fallen back on a more basic approach: call the Blackberry provider and complain. In two cases, I've had the mailbox size increased from 10mb to 50mb, enough to keep the mailboxes functional under a normal daily load of jpegs and pdfs.

- Adam

 

[tmckeown]

That may be my only option at this point. With all the features Exchange has, it's hard to believe they missed this. It seems like a no-brainer to me. Maybe that will be part of Exchange 2006.