Not quite an automatic response but a good alternative under preferences / accounts / advanced you can get mail to prompt you to skip all messages over 5000 Kb. When this is checked you can download / skip / delete any message that gets flagged.
Regards,
Eugene
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On 14/06/2010, at 5:57 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: > > I have an IMAP account set up, using Mail to access it. > > Mail's Rules doesn't seem to include an option to auto delete (including > remove from trash) messages which exceed, including attachments, a stipulated > size. > > My objective is to auto delete any message which exceeds, say, 5MB. > > I have checked with the mail host people, but they don't have a solution at > the server end, other than perhaps install a server-side mail handling > software. > > Anyone know of a solution at the client end? Alternatively, has anyone had > good experience with any particular server-side mail solutions? (The server > side is Windows based I think - I have a VPS). > > Regards, Steven > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >
