Andrew-Biss.com » Gmail http://andrew-biss.com My personal blog on business and technical innovation Tue, 01 May 2012 13:48:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Gmail attachments: Big game hunting http://andrew-biss.com/delete-large-gmail-attachments-with-freeware-windows-tool-imapsize/ http://andrew-biss.com/delete-large-gmail-attachments-with-freeware-windows-tool-imapsize/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:03:24 +0000 Andrew Biss http://andrew-biss.com/?p=1157 Tracking down and deleting large attachments with IMAPsize

This was becoming an issue as I keep a local backup of my Gmail account using IMAP Backup. And while you can find attachments in Gmail using search modifiers has:attachment and filename:zip, you can’t search or sort on attachment size.

The solution: the IMAPsize freeware Windows IMAP utility found via this blog post from Amit Agarwal. IMAPsize’s speciality is searching your Gmail account for folders (Gmail labels) and messages based on attachment size.

I quickly found and deleted my large attachments using IMAPsize. Backup problem solved. Recommended.

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