Outlook 2003.
Meeting minutes sent out as .doc attachments, we have a recipient who
receives the attachments as zip files.

What can cause this to happen?

Only 1 recipient? Then this recipient could have a compressing utility
installed which zips incoming attachments.

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
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"Gordon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Outlook 2003.
> Meeting minutes sent out as .doc attachments, we have a recipient who
> receives the attachments as zip files.
>
> What can cause this to happen?

"Roady [MVP]" <newsgroups_DELETE_@_DELETE_sparnaaij_NO_._SPAM_net> wrote in
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> Only 1 recipient? Then this recipient could have a compressing utility
> installed which zips incoming attachments.
>

Doesn't receive pdf files as zip - is that because they are already
compressed?

"Gordon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Doesn't receive pdf files as zip - is that because they are already
> compressed?

No, it's because whatever add-in they have is configured not to zip PDFs, not
because they're alreday compressed.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Perhaps the attachment is actually a docX file, which is a zip
compressed file and their system is ignoring the extension and supplying
it's own.

Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] wrote:

> "Gordon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
>> Doesn't receive pdf files as zip - is that because they are already
>> compressed?
>
>
> No, it's because whatever add-in they have is configured not to zip
> PDFs, not because they're alreday compressed.

"Bob I" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Perhaps the attachment is actually a docX file, which is a zip compressed
> file and their system is ignoring the extension and supplying it's own.
>

No it's not - it's sent from Office 2003 that does NOT have the
compatibility pack installed...
besides I get this email and it's definitely .doc that is attached, not
..docx...

Gordon wrote:

>
> "Bob I" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:#N$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>> Perhaps the attachment is actually a docX file, which is a zip
>> compressed file and their system is ignoring the extension and
>> supplying it's own.
>>
>
> No it's not - it's sent from Office 2003 that does NOT have the
> compatibility pack installed...
> besides I get this email and it's definitely .doc that is attached, not
> .docx...

What's the history of the PC in question, any e-mail addins?

"Bob I" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Gordon wrote:
>
>>
>> "Bob I" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:#N$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>>> Perhaps the attachment is actually a docX file, which is a zip
>>> compressed file and their system is ignoring the extension and supplying
>>> it's own.
>>>
>>
>> No it's not - it's sent from Office 2003 that does NOT have the
>> compatibility pack installed...
>> besides I get this email and it's definitely .doc that is attached, not
>> .docx...
>
> What's the history of the PC in question, any e-mail addins?
>

I don't know - I'll have to see. It's not mine or in a corporate environment
it's privately owned.....but at least he admits there's a problem! I was
just wanting some guidance on where to start looking...

In that case; I'd start looking with looking at installed add-in ;-)

Just so there is no miscommunication; the zip file that is being received
does contain the original doc-file and can still be opened from the
zip-file, right? It's not that the doc-file is received as a doc-file but is
tried to be opened with a zip-utility and then fails?

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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"Gordon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Bob I" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>
>> Gordon wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Bob I" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:#N$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>
>>>> Perhaps the attachment is actually a docX file, which is a zip
>>>> compressed file and their system is ignoring the extension and
>>>> supplying it's own.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No it's not - it's sent from Office 2003 that does NOT have the
>>> compatibility pack installed...
>>> besides I get this email and it's definitely .doc that is attached, not
>>> .docx...
>>
>> What's the history of the PC in question, any e-mail addins?
>>
>
> I don't know - I'll have to see. It's not mine or in a corporate
> environment it's privately owned.....but at least he admits there's a
> problem! I was just wanting some guidance on where to start looking...