Attachements with email, Outlook express

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Abdul Aziz

I have sent some word documents and some cad files from
office to my home email as an attachement. When I am
trying to open email, it opens but the attachments are
missing. There is a message which says OE removed access
to the following unsafe attachments in your mail

Can you please adivse.

Thanks
 
Greetings --

Outlook Express' default security settings are simply trying to
protect you. OE has no way of telling whether an attachment actually
contains a virus or not, so it temporarily blocks any of those file
types that could potentially contain a virus. In Outlook Express,
Tools > Options > Security, uncheck the "Do not allow attachments to
be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus" option, assuming
you trust the source, of course. The wiser course of action, however,
would be to modify your list of unsafe files, as outlined in the KB
articles below:

Cannot Open E-Mail Attachments in OE After You Install SP1
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q329570

Information About the Unsafe File List in Internet Explorer 6
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;291369

OLEXP Using Virus Protection Features in Outlook Express 6
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;291387


Bruce Chambers

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Abdul,

In Outlook express,Tools,Options,Security,Deselect the option "Do not allow
attachments to be saved or opened..."
 
OE has a security setting that can be activated to remove access to files
commonly associated with viruses. Check Tools > Options > Security and make
sure the "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could
potentially be a virus" option is NOT checked.

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Tony Talmage
Web Developer
Graphic Education Corporation
http://www.graphiced.com
(888) 354-6600
 

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