Limiting download of email attachments

We use Exchange at work and I have an Iphone. I'm going to be abroad on holiday and I would like to know if it's possible to turn off the automatic download of attachments on email so that I don't end up with a large bill!! (I get lots of large attachments as part of my job).
I cannot find how to do this - can anyone help? Thanks.

Hi Mike,
We used Nokia phones before and there we could even limit the size of incomming emails (the body of the message) to x kb. For attachments, only the name of the attachment was shown. Clicking in the attachment would start the download.
Now we are starting with iPones..... and yes we have the same problem you have !
This morning at 8am my colleague flew to Denmark at 11am he called, he received a text message
from our Dutch provider (KPN) that his data usage is at 50 Euro and that unless he sends a text message
back his data will be blocked.
So in say 2 hours he used 50 Euros of data !!
With my Nokia E72 I travelled to Austria this winter and in 9 days !
with the setting only 2kb of text from each email to be downloaded and no attachments
I did NOT reach the 50 Euro "limit"
Patrick

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