Is it possible to create a .Net application which can read my Outlook mailbox, and for each mail replace any attachment with its compressed replacement?
In short, the .NET application/addin should check my old mails one by one, if it has an attachment file, then zip it, and replace the original attachment file with the new zipped one.
This is to reduce the size consumed in my mailbox. is there any such tool already available online?
I am using .Net 2008/2012 and Outlook 2010.
yes, there are a few components available to work with outlook, popular ones: Redemption, Outlook Interop
To achieve what you said, should be fairly simple, retrieve the email and do whatever you like and save it.
Question off the topic: zip the attachments could reduce your mail size, but it will still be large sooner or later... why not think about other ways, for example, archive your emails and etc.?
Could not find exactly what I need, so started creating one. Here is the attempt - http://www.saurabhkumar.com/autozip/ It compresses(zips) mail attachments, just before the mail is sent. Saves the sender and recipient lots of headache.
