Delete Email Attachments Sent as Links in Salesforce Classic
When you add an attachment to an email, you can send the attachment as a link instead
of sending the entire file. You can stop the person who got the email from opening the linked
attachment.
Required Editions
Available in: Salesforce Classic
Available in: All Editions except Essentials
User Permissions
Needed
To delete email attachments sent as links:
Modify All Data
You can find and delete attachments sent as links. Recipients who
then click the attachment link see a message asking them to contact the email sender to view
the attachment. You can search only within your organization’s email retention
period. This period is typically 30 days, but contact Salesforce Support for your
organization’s details.
From Setup, enter Attachments in the Quick
Find box, then select Delete Attachments Sent as
Links.
Enter either of these options.
File name (optional), username, and date range:
Optionally, attachment file name, including the file extension (for example,
ThisYearResults.pdf). You can use wildcards (for example,
ThisYearRes would find
ThisYearResults.pdf).
Sender's username
Attachment URL: Click the attachment link (.html) in the
email to open it in a browser, and copy and paste the URL.
Date range during which the email was sent
Click Search
Search results show up to 100 matching entries.
If the attachment was sent using mass email, search results show one entry for every
100 emails sent. Delete one of these entries to delete the attachment.
In Search Results, click Del next to the attachment you want to
delete. Recipients who then click the attachment link see a message asking them to contact
the email sender to view the attachment.
You cannot recover deleted attachments from the Recycle Bin.
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