Outlook 2002 - Stripping IE Links in Email

[Peggy DaValt]

Hi everyone -

I have an issue with Outlook 2002 and IE6. I have some
personnel that want to send links from IE to people. When
they click on the send link (via IE), Outlook opens up and
displays this message, "Outlook blocked access to the
following potentially unsafe attachments: index.url."

I checked on Exchange 5.5 and I am not blocking the URL
attachment.

I have worked with some higher level officials and was not
able to get this to work, even after opening up the public
folders and adding the Outlook Security Form. I still get
the above message.

Is there something that I'm overlooking???

To me, it's just easier to cut and paste a link into e-
mail...but someone wants to be able to use the
functionality of IE6.0 in conjunction with forwarding a
URL/link.

Thanks for your help.

Cordially,

Peggy DaValt
State of WI - Department of Regulation & Licensing
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Diane Poremsky]

the blocking on done on their end, not yours. The message says it's blocked,
but the link will send... however, you can't know for sure if the recipient
has them blocked or not. For this reason, I recommend using mailto_url to
send text links in the message body - look for it at slipstick.com. They
would right click on a page and choose Send URL to... rather than the file
send to menu.