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Liela
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      20th May 2009
I have a user who has an issue sending documents. The issue does not happen
all the time so I am stumped. When she sends the email with the attachment,
she will think that the attachment is in the email as she does not get any
type of error and its not until later that she finds out, usually because the
receiver emails her, that the attachment was not received. Again this does
not happen every time she sends an attachment. When she goes back into her
sent items the attachment is not in fact there.

I hope someone has a clue because I don't have one.

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K. Orland
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      20th May 2009
Is antivirus configured to actively scan incoming/outgoing email? This would
be the first thing I would look at. AV doesn't have to scan every email, the
real time scanner will catch whatever it's updated for.

"Liela" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2B9AA132-6105-4978-9AD9-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a user who has an issue sending documents. The issue does not

happen
> all the time so I am stumped. When she sends the email with the

attachment,
> she will think that the attachment is in the email as she does not get any
> type of error and its not until later that she finds out, usually because

the
> receiver emails her, that the attachment was not received. Again this

does
> not happen every time she sends an attachment. When she goes back into

her
> sent items the attachment is not in fact there.
>
> I hope someone has a clue because I don't have one.
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Ms. Liela M. Fuller



 
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Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]
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      21st May 2009
"Liela" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a user who has an issue sending documents. The issue does not happen
> all the time so I am stumped. When she sends the email with the attachment,
> she will think that the attachment is in the email as she does not get any
> type of error and its not until later that she finds out, usually because
> the
> receiver emails her, that the attachment was not received. Again this does
> not happen every time she sends an attachment. When she goes back into her
> sent items the attachment is not in fact there.


A common cause of this is sending a Rich Text message to a non-Outlook user.
Rich Text is an Outlook-specific format and people not using Outlook cannot
see attachment on RIch Text messages.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

 
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Liela
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      21st May 2009
I checked the Virus software and it is not scanning incoming or outgoing
emails.

So would the fact that the email is Rich text remove the attachment in the
senders sent items? What should I have her do if the problem is the Rich text
format?

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Ms. Liela M. Fuller


"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

> "Liela" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2B9AA132-6105-4978-9AD9-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> >I have a user who has an issue sending documents. The issue does not happen
> > all the time so I am stumped. When she sends the email with the attachment,
> > she will think that the attachment is in the email as she does not get any
> > type of error and its not until later that she finds out, usually because
> > the
> > receiver emails her, that the attachment was not received. Again this does
> > not happen every time she sends an attachment. When she goes back into her
> > sent items the attachment is not in fact there.

>
> A common cause of this is sending a Rich Text message to a non-Outlook user.
> Rich Text is an Outlook-specific format and people not using Outlook cannot
> see attachment on RIch Text messages.
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>
>

 
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K. Orland
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      21st May 2009
Have the user switch to HTML or plain text. Rich text format is specific to
Outlook, no other email client supports it.

"Liela" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:5ADEA8C6-F925-4288-A093-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I checked the Virus software and it is not scanning incoming or outgoing
> emails.
>
> So would the fact that the email is Rich text remove the attachment in the
> senders sent items? What should I have her do if the problem is the Rich

text
> format?
>
> --
> Ms. Liela M. Fuller
>
>
> "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
>
> > "Liela" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:2B9AA132-6105-4978-9AD9-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> > >I have a user who has an issue sending documents. The issue does not

happen
> > > all the time so I am stumped. When she sends the email with the

attachment,
> > > she will think that the attachment is in the email as she does not get

any
> > > type of error and its not until later that she finds out, usually

because
> > > the
> > > receiver emails her, that the attachment was not received. Again this

does
> > > not happen every time she sends an attachment. When she goes back

into her
> > > sent items the attachment is not in fact there.

> >
> > A common cause of this is sending a Rich Text message to a non-Outlook

user.
> > Rich Text is an Outlook-specific format and people not using Outlook

cannot
> > see attachment on RIch Text messages.
> > --
> > Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
> >
> >



 
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Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]
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      22nd May 2009
"Liela" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> So would the fact that the email is Rich text remove the attachment in the
> senders sent items? What should I have her do if the problem is the Rich
> text
> format?


The format of the message will not affect the retention of attachments in the
Sent Items folder. If you composed it with an attachment, it should have the
attachment in Sent Items regardless of the format.
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