OE removal of attachments deemed usafe.

[G. Clifton]

Just upgraded to IE6 and Outlook Express 6. Since the
upgrade OE has removed most of my incoming e-mail
attachments. The attahcments being removed were mostly
forwarded e-mails. The messages reads "OE removed access
to the following unsafe attachments in your mail:
[filename]" Generally the attachements are the e-mail
title being forward and an .eml extension. I can open
them with the e-mail client through my ISP, but cannot
retrieve them via OE6. I am running Norton Anti Virus and
Norton IE Security which didn't seem to care much about
the e-mails pior to the IE upgrade. Any way to tone down
or turn off the security on OE6?

 

[Corinne Rainbow]

NewsGroups : Hello/Bonjour G. Clifton , tu nous a dit / you told us

Just upgraded to IE6 and Outlook Express 6. Since the
upgrade OE has removed most of my incoming e-mail
attachments. The attahcments being removed were mostly
forwarded e-mails. The messages reads "OE removed access
to the following unsafe attachments in your mail:
[filename]" Generally the attachements are the e-mail
title being forward and an .eml extension. I can open
them with the e-mail client through my ISP, but cannot
retrieve them via OE6. I am running Norton Anti Virus and
Norton IE Security which didn't seem to care much about
the e-mails pior to the IE upgrade. Any way to tone down
or turn off the security on OE6?

did you ever have a look into options?
You would have found the answer in the "security" thumbnail


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http:// www.hoaxbuster.com

 

[John Clifford Hole]

Posted to newsgroup and emailed directly to the poster of the message that this is a reply to.

See if this helps.

Load up Outlook Express and click on Tools/Options/Security and see if you've got a tick against "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus."

If you have then uncheck this box and you should get access to all attachments.

Before you do this,of course,make sure that you have installed,and keep up-to-date,a good virus checker program.

You might also find this useful.

Load up Outlook Express and remove,if it's there,the tick against 'When Outlook Express starts, go directly to my Inbox' .

Click on INBOX then right-click an empty bit of the TOOLBAR and click on CUSTOMIZE and find the icon called PREVIEW and double-click it to add it to the TOOLBAR.

When you've done this you can click on the PREVIEW icon to turn on or turn off the PREVIEW PANE.

You can then turn it off,before you go on-line,and let all your emails download then delete any that look 'suspicious' - without them being opened when you click on their headers to highlight them before deleting them - then turn it back on to view the rest of them.

If you're still not sure about any of the 'safe' ones then - with the Preview Pane still turned off - you can right-click the header and then click PROPERTIES/DETAILS/MESSAGE SOURCE and see what the email contains then decide to either delete it or open it.

John Clifford Hole [MVP] of Enfield Middlesex