Outlook attachments

[Guest]

..msg files sent to me as an attachment will not open automatically in
Outlook. When I try to open directly, I receive a popup message ""The Object
could not be found" If I save file first, then I can open them OK. Have I got
a security
setting wrong?

 

[Lex De Leuke]

How do you receive those msg files? As attachment in an e-mail?
And do you use Outlook or Outlook Express?

kevin0neill schreef:

 

[Guest]

I receive the files as email attachments using Outlook 2003 with a MS
Exchange 2003 account.

 

[John]

In case an attachment is an email, it should not be received as a file
(with the extension .msg). It should be converted, be seen as an email.
I often send a msg file as attachment, but after attaching it, there is
no .msg anymore, e.g. my filename has disapeared, the original subject
of the email has become the attachmentname.

When you try to forward this email, you still can't open the attachment
directly from the email?

 

[Guest]

I'm having exactly the same problem and cannot find a solution.
I installed my new portable with Windows XP Pro SP2 and loaded Office 2003
Pro on it and then did an import form my office settings from my old
portable. Since then I have the problem in outlook 2003 that I cannot open
mail messages (.msg) in other mails. I am also unable to create a new mail
with other mails as attachments. The error is "The object could notb e found"
when you try to add another mail message to your new email.
If I receive an email with other email(s) in it I get the same errormessage

Can anyone help ?

 

[John]

I can't imagine your outlook attaching email as a file.
The normal behaviour is all files stay a file "as is", but an email is
converted immediately to an email format.
You can easily test this:
send yourself an email having the subject 'my subject'
save an that email as msg. The filename is: 'my subject.msg'
rename the msg file to 'my filename.msg'
create a new email and try to attach the email on different ways. I
think there are two: Inser | File and drag&drop.
Now you have two attachments in your new email. What is the name of the
attachment?
When the name is 'my filename.msg' (or 'my filename' without extension)
indeed, the email has been attached as a file.
When the name is my subject, the email is converted to an email.
This convertion is normal, because you don't know if the receiver has
Outlook. In fact he receives two emails (an email and an attached
email). The receivers emailprogram should be able to read both emails
as an email.

Please share your testresults here!

KVDM schreef:

 

[Guest]

John, I did the test.

I get an email with two identical files attached both named "my
filename.msg". I added them to a new email in the two ways you discribed
being insert/file and via drag and drop. Apparently there is no conversion
done at my end but my collegues seem to have this conversion. We are working
with Exchange 2003 in AD and that's the mailserver we all use.
Is there perhaps a setting I need to change in my outlook client ?
Strange thing is that I can open these .msg file now without any problem.
Emails I received from other people give me the same errormessage without
being able to open the .msg file.
I'm getting very confused with this, I hope there is still someone out there
who knows what is wrong here ...

 

[John]

Realy strange. I don't believe it's an exchange setting, because that
would be a useless one. Nobody wants emails to be attached as a file,
just because you don't know the receivers software.

Maybe your profile is corrupt.
Can you do another test? Is it possible for you to log on as a
different user on the same computer? Is it possible to get a new
profile? If it is, they you first should log out, then the
administrator should delete (better rename) your network profile
directory. Then they should delete (or rename) the profile on the c
drive. When you log in, a new profile will be created. I beleave it
will be fixed.

By the way, why do you attach e-mail (as a file)? Most people forward
an email with the forwarded e-mail in the body text?

KVDM schreef:

 

[Guest]

John,

I fixed the problem, and it was related to the profile. I tried a new
profile and everything worked fine until I added my personal folders to my
folder list in outlook. This corrupted again everything because my personal
folders files are format (97-2002) and that's where the problem is. Once you
have added such a personal folder something in your outlook is corrupt and
can only be fixrd by getting a new XP profile. The setting causing this must
be in registry because deleting all the relevant files in your profile does
not fix it, the problem remains.
So I converted my (97-2002) format for my personal folders to the new
outlook 2003 format by creating a new personal folder and then copying over
everything from the old to the new. After that recreating my profile and
adding the new format personal folders and everything works fine so far, all
the "object not found" messages are history on my pc.

Thx for the very helpfull advise John.

Greetings,
Kris