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Process, compress and block Microsoft Outlook email attachments

Serdar Yegulalp
04.17.2007
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Everyone uses email as a quick-and-dirty way to send and share files. While convenient to end users, this behavior raises email storage, security and performance concerns for messaging administrators.

Email attachments that easily lend themselves to being compressed into .ZIP files are less troublesome -- but you have to rely on your users to remember or bother to compress their own files.

Some Exchange Server administrators impose limits on the size of email attachments that can be sent or received; others just accept this "email for file sharing" trend as inevitable and unavoidable and deal with it as best they can.

MAPILab has created an add-on called Attachments Processor for Outlook that addresses the management of email attachments in Microsoft Outlook.

Attachments Processor for Outlook provides three major functions:

A single-user license for Attachment Processor for Outlook is U.S. $24 with sliding discounts for bulk purchases. There is also 30-day trial version available.

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