Disabling attachment downloads OR limiting email download size

I have set up many email accounts but I cannot disable downloads of attachment. It shoots up my phone bill as unwanted emails with attachments are also downloaded. Is there a way of disabling attachment downloading OR downloading ONLY HEADERS OR limiting the size of each email to be downloaded (like the option available in Windows mobile phones).

The only settings that I am aware of for the mail that would limit anything are the "load remote images" and the preview. You could use the preview to decide if you wanted to open a particular email, and there is a paperclip icon for emails that contain attachments. Wait to open them. Generally, they only download a portion of the email if it is a large one, but I don't know if this is a guarantee. If you are having issues with the amount of data you are using because of the restrictions of your account, you might want to set the email accounts to only check manually, so you can check them when you are in a wifi area, or turn off the accounts that are not really necessary.

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I had a client waiting on emails to download into outlook. When the problem was reported, there were several days worth of emails to download.
Outlook was retrieving messages, but it was only taking 8 - 15 at a time, the total size for each group was between 20 - 35 mb, and this went on for hours until it finally downloaded all the emails.
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My mail is delivered though an Exchange Server.
At present emails download fine UNLESS they have a large attachment.
If they have a large attachment, the email will appear in the central "preview" pane with the address of the sender and the subject line, but will otherwise not download.
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I imagine that it is related to the NOSEND feature,
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"Alan" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:C257BB82.2CAE76%[email protected]..
> what are you sending the mail out in?
>
> normally, you would use absolute full urls to the
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>
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>
> --
> Alan
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>
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Day 2 with a new BB Q10 and so far it's great!
I'm pretty tech savvy and have set up my POP3 email account as well as the SMTP etc.. and eveything works.
I set the POP3 account email 'Sync Interval' to "Manual", assuming this would allow me to check my email ONLY when I wish to do so as I don't want email downloaded to the Q10 unless I have a good reason to check it. I bought the Q10 primarily as a phone and not as an email tool.
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vmisirlis wrote:
What you can do with the email is to set when to sync your can also go to settings and toggle the switch to data plan in order to save data!
The data plan is already off as I'm on my local wi-fi. But I still end up downloading emails that I then appear to have to OPEN if I want to delete them.
Is there no way to delete emails without opening?
What about deleting emails that may contain a dangerous payload?
The set to sync every "24 hours" will work only for 24 hours. I'd prefer to set it to something longer (->7days). But when it does kick in it will still download whatever's waiting online.
Why not a Sync ON/OFF option?
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Hi Everyone!
Well, I have tried about all I can think of, and I have asked other Mac users, and now I am coming to this forum for some wisdom from other Mac sages and users.
I have this incredible annoyance which began with OS 10.5 and has continue in 10.6.
My Apple Mail app downloads my emails from Gmail, Yahoo, Windows Live, and all the email that is downloaded, comes already with the red flag. They the red flag disappears when I read an email.
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When I am roaming I would like to limit my email downloads, to just download headers, or just the first 5k, like I used to be able on my Treo. Even being able to set "no attachments" or "no images" would be great.
Right now I'm finding my email charges while roaming are huge, because I get a lot of email that really isn't crucial, but I have to download it all in order to see the messages that are.
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Here is what I have noticed with attachements.
I can test and send an attachment to myself from PC to iPhone accuont that it is checking.
Open Mail App. It checks and says connecting...etc. I see messages show up.
Get the Ding.
Shortly after that the paperclip will show I got one with an attachment.
But then the progress at the bottom goes away. However, if I don't go into that mail message and just wait. The progress indicator at the top will start and will process and process and process. Once that if finally done. If I open the message. The attachment will be there already downloaded. Only if one goes into a mail message around the time it arrives (before it had time to download) have I seen it say attachment is there but not downloaded (or at times it will take time and process and download on open).
I have just found (from my experience) that if you don't go right into email when an email with an attachement arrives and let it sit it will eventually be there when you do go check.
Now this also happens when I don't open the mail app at all. As I described in one of my earlier posts. I listen to music/podcasts on FM transmitter in my car. I get the now and then interference for txt, grabbing new cell etc. When new email arrives (I don't seem to get interference with just checking...odd) but when new email arrives I hear the itnerference (longer than txt interference) then it stops, I get a ding. But I will leave it there as I don't need to be reading email while driving. But if an attachement was included, then it will start to process again (long time with interference...could be minutes if big attachment especially while moving and jumping towers). I have had to pause playback as it is just unbearable. I have at times gotten fed up knowing it was a huge file that I can get later and gone and turned of my email after having gone into mail to press and hold home button to force quit it.
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Disabling attachment downloads OR limiting email download size

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