Prevent users from sending attachments in Gmail
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Problem
Need to prevent users from sending attachments to internal and also to external users and how to create an attachment compliance rule.
Environment
Solution
- Go to the Compliance page.
- Next to Attachment compliance, click on Configure.
- Add a name to the rule.
- Select the email messages to affect.
- Select the file types you need to affect.
- Under Attachments, click on Remove attachments from message.
- Click on Save.
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Last updated 2023-10-02 UTC.
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