Fw: [Herefordshire] Re: Windows NT Attachments

[Chris Owens]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Owens" <cowens at clara.co.uk>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Re: Windows NT Attachments


> Hi Folks (now Gentlemen at least I feel),
>
> Henry, Andrew and Phil - many thanks, absolutely spot on. The solution is:
>
> Outlook Express > Tools > Options > Security > Uncheck Box 4 (Do not allow
> attachments to be saved or opened that potentially could be a virus)
>
> All .JPG and .TXT incoming attachments now usable.
>
> I remain gentlemen, your grovelling apprentice - eternally - well until
the
> next time!
>
> Thanks again and all the best
>
>
> Chris O
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Hodgson" <andrew.hodgson at allpay.net>
> To: "'Herefordshire Linux Users Group.'"
<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 12:24 PM
> Subject: RE: [Herefordshire] Re: Windows NT Attachments
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think this is tools | options | security and uncheck the option
``block
> > access to dangerous file types''.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Andrew.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris
Owens
> > Sent: 28 June 2005 12:17
> > To: LUG (Herefordshire)
> > Subject: [Herefordshire] Re: Windows NT Attachments
> >
> > 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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