[Herefordshire] Re: Windows NT Attachments

Phil Taylor phil at phil-taylor.com
Tue Jun 28 12:20:56 BST 2005


The setting is in tools menu somewhere :-)

remember Google is your friend:

http://www.updatexp.com/blocked-outlook-express-attachments.html


Chris Owens wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>    Please forgive desperate plea for a solution to a non-Linux (naturally
>Windows)
>problem.
>
>Am using Outlook Express 6 (6.00.2800.1106) running on Windows Professional
>2000 NT.
>
>.TXT and .JPG e-mail attachments appear, from the time taken, to come in
>successfully attached to their messages - no problem. Clicking on the
>message 'Safety Pin' reveals the titles of the attachments greyed out and
>inaccessible. Clicking on the message title in the Inbox shows a message "OE
>removed access from the following unsafe attachments: Titles of the
>attachments". Clicking on the message Properties gives all the transmission
>date and shows any part of the attachment that is text based but nothing of
>any pictures and the like.
>
>.DOC attachments from Word come in OK and can be opened without a problem.
>
>I am damned if I can find any setting security or otherwise to change  not
>to mention anything remotely helpful in 'Help' to get over this but it
>really is a b----- nuisance and I don't think originally there was a
>problem -
>another of Gates' too clever by far cockups. Can anything be changed to
>access the attachments as they are or do they have to be re-imported after
>the required adjustment whatever that is.
>
>Many thanks and eternally grovelling
>
>Chris O
>
>
>
>  
>




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