"Chuck" said in news:
[email protected]:
Is there any way to send and receive program attachments
(.exe files, etc.) in Outlook 2002? Outlook blocks both
sending and receiving the attachment unless I change the
file extension to something else, such as .txt
Outlook will *warn* you about sending bad filetypes as attachments. It
will NOT stop you from sending e-mail with them. Outlook will block
access to bad filetypes as attachments unless you edit the registry to
change which filetypes are considered Level 1 filetypes (or use a
utility to do the same, like AttachmentOptions).
So, you want to send an .exe file but Outlook is getting in your way.
So, just don't send an .exe file. Rename the file to .exx and send
that. Tell the recipient to rename it back to .exe after they save the
attachment. If the sender renames the extension to a non-executable
filetype then Outlook won't bitch. It is also consider polite to NOT
send an executable file as an attachment. While some e-mail clients
will require the user to save the attachment and then make them manually
start it (i.e., the user had to take deliberate actions to run the
file), some e-mail clients may still let you double-click the attachment
and have it run immediately. So rename the executable file from .exe to
..exx, .com to .cmm, .vbs to .vb$, or whatever suits your fancy. Just
make sure the first 3 characters of the last dotted substring doesn't
end up being an executable filetype.
