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[justme]

I am getting an alert about opening an rtf attachment from my email. I have
never had a problem like this before. I have always been able to open them
and see the text and pictures. It is also happening when I save the
attachment to a file on my hard drive.
Here is the alert:
This doucment contains code that your Security Settings do not allow, so it
might not display correctly.
Does anyone know what is going on.

 

[Andy Huang]

Attachment is deemed dangerous by your Virus Scanner and/or email security
settings, might be a real virus or simply active code your settings don't
like.
Make sure this arrived from a trusted & known person, but even though that
person might be infected itself, so what I do is open it on a separate
computer which i don't care to lose or infect and/or in a "dummy" file
viewer like Notepad, etc. which cannot EXECUTE any codes, macros, etc.

But since you asked such a simple question, it means you don't udnerstand
what I mean by a "dummy" viewer, so all my explanations are probably futile.
Have someone knowledgeable to investigate this file.
Don't risk opening it unless like myself you know the consequences.

 

[justme]

I have sent files from my computer with text and pictures to myself and the
same thing happens. I have also saved the file to my computer and it still
gives me the message when I try to open it. If I save it to a flash drive it
is opens fine with no alert or if I change the file to MS Word it opens on my
computer with no alert fine.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Tools, Options, Security, uncheck "Do not allow attachments..."

 

[justme]

I tried it and it still didn't work. I even restarted the computer before
trying it.

 

[justme]

The file opens fine as long as I don't send it as an email and try to open
it. Even if I save it to my computer before opening it it still gives me an
alert when I do try.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

In that case, your antivirus is causing the problem, not Windows Mail.

 

[Peter Foldes]

RTF ? That is a Outlook format . Do you have Outlook or were these files sent to you
in Windows Mail. Whoever sent them was using Outlook. RTF usually is not problem but
it needs Outlook to open them,

 

[Sam Hobbs]

Rich Text Format (RTF) is a word processing / markup format, just as SGML is
a word processing / markup format (and HTML is SGML-based). So you could say
that RTF is an Office format, although it is far from unique to Office.

See the following for the specification:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140277(office.10).aspx

 

[Peter Foldes]

Sam

I am very well aware of this but the OP posted that he received attachments with the
RTF extension, That could only mean that the sender is using Outlook and he was set
to RTF format when he sent his email to the Windows Mail client (justme)
What the OP can do is to ask the sender to resend them using Plain Text or the HTML
markup or if the OP has Outlook then he can try and open them there
As far as the warnings that he is getting are most likely caused by his Anti Virus
program

 

[Sam Hobbs]

You don't get it. RTF is not unique to Outlook. RTF is not an "Outlook
format".

You are assuming I implied more than I did; that is not a correct
assumption.

I will say explicitly here and now that many programs support the RTF
format, not just Outlook. For example, the default format for the WordPad
accessory is RTF. Also, back in 16-bit Windows, before Outlook existed, help
files were created in RTF format and then compiled to files with the hlp
extension.

I am not sure, but I suspect that Microsoft's Rich Text Format (RTF) is a
variation of IBM's Revisable Form Text (RFT), which existed before the IBM
PC and Microsoft existed.

Sam

I am very well aware of this but the OP posted that he received
attachments with the RTF extension, That could only mean that the sender
is using Outlook and he was set to RTF format when he sent his email to
the Windows Mail client (justme)
What the OP can do is to ask the sender to resend them using Plain Text or
the HTML markup or if the OP has Outlook then he can try and open them
there
As far as the warnings that he is getting are most likely caused by his
Anti Virus program

 

[Steve Cochran]

If the user sent the message in RTF format from Outlook, then it would be
unreadable in WinMail and OE. However, from what I read here, there was an
RTF attachment and the actual message was readable, so I think the issue is
the attachment and not the sending format. Messages from Outlook in RTF
format result in an unreadable dat file as an attachment in OE and WinMail.

steve

Sam

I am very well aware of this but the OP posted that he received
attachments with the RTF extension, That could only mean that the sender
is using Outlook and he was set to RTF format when he sent his email to
the Windows Mail client (justme)
What the OP can do is to ask the sender to resend them using Plain Text or
the HTML markup or if the OP has Outlook then he can try and open them
there
As far as the warnings that he is getting are most likely caused by his
Anti Virus program