Hi Eugene,

This option is only available with POP accounts on my mac. 

Alex

On 14 Jun 2010, at 18:30, Eugene wrote:

> 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
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