Tech help required plz

[brixtonbrood]

If one were a very foolish person, and had email oneself an unreasonably large document from work to look at at home, and the Interwebs was sulking and it was taking For Ever to receive and preventing you from reading actual useful emails . Is there a way to tell Outlook not to bother downloading that one and just do the others? [edit: yes there is, and mad stabbing at menus found it]

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[andrewducker]

Do you have webmail access of any kind? If so, then using that to connect, and delete the email, would do it.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Thanks

Actually I just hit menu items on Outlook at random, and eventually found a button for "Turn off automatic download" and then another one for "Just download the headers from the server so you can select which ones to download and which to delete". So hurrah for random stabbing!

[rufusfrog.livejournal.com]

Hurrah indeed! I used to email myself stuff until someone put me on to 'dropbox'. What's good about it (as opposed other online storage sites I've seen where you have to log on each time) is that once it's installed it on both computers it acts like just another folder under My Documents. Save or drag something there on one computer and it appears automatically on the other one.

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

Sounds good but I suspect that my work's IT department's chances of OKing that are roughly nil. In fact I can log on to my work remotely, but sometimes the offline solution is better.