.msg attachments

[Jack B]

Occasionally someone sends me an email message with an attachment that has a
msg extension, and when I try to open it in Outlook, nothing happens. This
just happened again today, and I would like to show the details here and see
if someone can tell me how to correct it in future. I am running Outlook
2002 with Vista.

The message came with an attachment of a file labeled blablabla.msg (649k).
There was no text in the message window, just the file name shown under
attachments. I tried to open the attachment in Outlook by right clicking
and selecting "open" but nothing happened. Then I copied the file to my
desktop and tried to open it with Notepad and Word, and I got some garbled
information - enough to know that somewhere in there was both a text message
and an attached file.

Then I forwarded this email to another email account I have that I rarely
use, and found that it included a text message with an attached Excel file,
and I was able to read both. This is at Yahoo.com

So my question is what is the deal with Outlook that I couldn't read this,
and what do I need to change in settings or whatever to fix it?

Thanks for any help.

Jack

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Issue caused by Google Desktop. Update it it to the latest version or remove
it.
See http://www.msoutlook.info/question/64

You do realize that Outlook 2002 has known and unknown compatibility issues
with Windows Vista that won't be addressed?