How to Remove Attachment from Emails of Windows Live Mail and All Other Email Apps?

Attachments form a great pair with the messages they get attached to ; but often they become a matter of chaos when they get increased in numbers and users wants to get rid of them. Which means, they want only the messages but not the attachments. Most of the email clients like Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail etc. doesn’t provide any option to remove attachments from the messages stored in them. So the question could be how to remove attachment from emails of Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express or Windows Mail ?

Want to Get Rid of the Attachments Received in Email messages?

Manually, it is possible to remove attachment from Inbox of Windows Live Mail and all other EML based email clients. Just forward the message to yourself, after removing all the attachments. Looks easy? Indeed, its easy ! But replying to those messages would not be easy and it show your email address in “To” Section and you have to search to the intended recipient manually (This will exaggerate your problem only).

Another Manual Process is :

• Drag and drop email messages from Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail and save the message as .EML in desktop area.
• Open Notepad and drag and drop the just extracted EML file in it.
• Search for the text “——= _NextPart…..” appearing in the end of the message. Above it appears the attachment displayed as an encoded message in a string of text. You can see the attachment’s file name above it, then Content Type and again the text “——= _NextPart…..” (appearing two times). Select all the text.
• After selecting, delete all the highlighted text.
• Save the file and close Notepad.
• Now again drag and drop the just saved file back into Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail or Outlook Express.
• Now, you have the email message with attachments removed.

Repeat the same process for the remaining email messages.

As you can see, both the above mentioned manual processes are time consuming and quite complex to follow. Both the processes involve high degree of efforts and perseverance and are not feasible for unlimited email messages.

How to Remove Attachment from Inbox of Windows Live Mail?

There is an easy method to remove attachments from Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express, Windows Mail. Try EML Attachment Remover, a simple to use utility that will easily remove attachment from Outlook Express. Remove attachments from email of Windows Live Mail, Windows Mail, Thunderbird and all EML based email applications in instant mode, using the bulk option of the software. Just save all the email messages in a folder and use the “Add Folder having EML File(s)” option for removing attachments from batches of EML files. Not only this, the software also offers different file naming options to rename EML files.

Get Now EML Attachment Remover to remove attachments and get them saved in separate folders from all EML based applications : Windows Live Mail, Thunderbird, Windows Mail, Outlook Express, Mail Copa, The Bat, eM Client, DreamMail and more.

Offered in Demo and Licensed Edition, the software works in both conditions, but demo is limited to removing attachments from 5 EML files only. Licensed edition overcomes this problem and remove attachments from all the selected EML files, in one go.