Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments

[Phil]

I thought that I read somewhere that by clicking on the
infobar I could download the attachments or url's in this
case. That way our users can see the blocked attachments
in the infobar and easily download any content. However
right now I could click all day and nothing happens.

We also use group policies and I've add the Outlook GPO's
and configured the Outlook security portions which seemed
to make no difference whatsoever.

I'm thinking the infobar method would be easy for our
endusers to use if it worked. In addition we would also
like to have control via the Outlook Group Policy Objects
for this and other settings. Please help.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No, that's not the way it works. Files are either blocked or not blocked.
There's no in-between state.

You didn't say what policies you implemented.

 

[Phil]

Where I read about the infobar was in the Office2K3
Resource Kit. The article is "Helping users avoid junk e-
mail messages in Outlook 2003". The section
under "Configuring automatic picture download" has this:
This feature to not automatically download pictures or
other content can also help users to avoid viewing
potentially offensive material (for external content
linked to the message), and if they are on a low bandwidth
connection, to decide whether an image warrants the time
and bandwidth to download it. Users can view the blocked
pictures or content in a message by clicking the InfoBar
under the message header or right-clicking the blocked
image.

The GPO's I tried to implement are:
Automatic Picture Download Settings
Permit Download of content from Safe sender ... Enabled
Permit download of content from Safe Zones .... Enabled
Block Trusted Zones Disabled
Block Intranet Disabled

It looks like I might need to use the "Allow access to e-
mail attachments" also.

Thanks for your assistance in this matter.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

That's a different feature altogether and affects only embedded content in
HTML messages. It has nothing whatsoever to do with file attachments.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers