How to create a filter which forwards without forwarding the attachment.

[sgsawant]

I have a friend to whom I want to forward all emails which have the
words "computer vision robotics". But he does not like receiving
attachments (his college id has low memory it seems). How do I create
such a filter which forwards the message but not the attachment?

-sgsawant

[Sean Murphy]

    I couldn't find a way to do so but I thought of a workaround - set up a filter that looks for emails that have the words "computer vision robotics" AND have an attachment, but have the filter send a canned response to your friend instead of the actual email, a canned response saying something like "I have an email with an attachment for you - contact me to get it forwarded without the attachment".

    Alternately, have that filter star the messages with attachments (or apply an appropriate label) so that you can pick them out easily in order to forward them manually and strip out the attachment. Off the top of my head, those are the best workarounds I can think of.

[©Sun]

Pardon me for popping in...  but  quick question,  how do I apply or create a canned response when creating a specific filter... I know how to create the filter, but didn't know I could apply a canned response to it.. Thanks so much!!!

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[Sean Murphy]

    If you check, one of the options when creating a filter, one of the options is to send a canned response. It is a drop-down, so it might require that you create the Canned Response before creating the filter.

[JohnW]

One reason you can't automatically forward messages without
attachments is that a message with an attachment is sent as "all one
message".
Until the two are separated, say by downloading to a client program,
the attachment is still bound into the message itself.
When Google stores your messages in 'All Mail', it does so with all
the contents included as part of the message: the two (or more) parts
of the message (the text and any attachments) are intimately bound up
as one file.

[Zack (Doc)]

That's a good idea, though I would say to create two filters specifically.  One for "computer vision robotics -has:attachment" which forwards to him when there is no attachment, and a second one for "computer vision robotics has:attachment" to send the canned message AND mark it in some special way so it's easy to find.

But probably the best solution is to have your friend get a GMail account (they ARE free, have a 25M attachment limit, and nearly 7.5G of storage space), and forward them all to him.  He could then set up a filter that notifies him (via canned message to his college account) that he has new mail there.  The ones he might actually like in his college account he can forward himself from that account.

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[©Sun]

Thanks so much Sean... will check it out!

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