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Re: Outlook 365: message sizes not falling when attachments removed?

From	Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general
Subject	Re: Outlook 365: message sizes not falling when attachments removed?
Date	2020-07-19 11:07 -0700
Message-ID	<hnjgfuFmnhdU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 7/19/2020 8:32 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 07:04:10, Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> wrote:
>>On 7/18/2020 8:19 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
>>> There's a column "Size" in the list of messages.
>>>  When I remove attachments from a message, the size shown does not 
>>>drop -
>>> even if the attachment was the bulk of the message. This seems to be
>>> true, even if I quit and restart Outlook, emptying the bin as I do so.
>>>  In other email clients I've used, the shown size _does_ drop when I
>>> remove attachments. So what gives?
>>>  1. Are the full emails - i. e. including the attachments - still 
>>>being
>>> kept somewhere? If so, how do you get at them?
>>> 2. If the answer to 1. is "yes they are but you can't", what's the point
>>> of the ability to "remove" attachments?
>>
>>
>>
>>Exactly how are you removing the attachment?
>>
>>
> Attachment appears as a rectangle above body of email (whether in
> preview pane or opened in separate window). I right-click on it, press v
> ("Remove attachment" has v underlined) or click remove, press space or
> click yes, and the rectangle disappears. The paperclip in the list of
> emails doesn't disappear nor does the size shown for the email drop,
> even if I go to another folder and back or close and restart Outlook,
> though the rectangle remains gone.


I'm using Outlook 2016. There's no such rectangle here. It must be a 
difference in the versions, so sorry, I can't try to see what happens here.



-- 
Ken

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