When trying to send an HTM/HTML file as an attachment this message
appears:
"To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent
sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your
e-mail security settings to determine how
attachments are handled"
Is this from the OS and why? Running Windows XP SP2.
"when trying to send ... as an attachment"
Well, you haven't sent the e-mail yet. You are still trying to attach
a file to an e-mail that you intend to send sometime later. So how
could the error be from the mail server that hasn't gotten your e-mail
yet?
Since you don't get this error until you try to attach a file, how
could this be an OS error message? Does this error message randomly
appear on the screen and when you are doing nothing with any e-mail
application? You are attaching a file to an e-mail, and to do
anything with e-mail requires that you run an e-mail application. The
OS is not an e-mail application. Outlook Express, for example, is an
e-mail application. The message is being shown by the e-mail program
that you are using at the time you are also trying to attach the file
to a new mail composed using that e-mail program.
For whatever e-mail client you are using, you sure this isn't just a
*warning* message? It tells you that what you are sending may not be
accessible to the recipient because their security settings may block
access to your potentially hazardous attachment. You could bypass the
warning and attach the .html file and send it (I can and without any
warning), but the recipient might see "Outlook has blocked access to
the potentially unsafe attachment" so they won't get it anyway (it is
still in the e-mail saved in their local message store but marked as
blocked so Outlook won't permit access to the attachment). You sure
you are attaching an .htm[l] file and not a .url file?
So why not just put the URL for the HTML page of interest within the
body of your e-mail and let the recipient decide whether they visit
there or not? Why bloat your e-mail with an HTML file that may not
even render correctly for the recipient? Or you could shove it into a
..zip file and attach that.
By the way, add a trailing "x" onto the URL shown in PA Bear's post to
see that article.
