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| Thread ID: 34051 | 2003-06-03 00:07:00 | Excessive agression on rules on inbox - mystery deletions | robo (205) | Press F1 |
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| 149324 | 2003-06-03 00:07:00 | Am using OUtlook XP. Have noticed it takes a sudden dislike to emails from certain people. My sister for one. Anyone got any easy suggestions? Her address is not obviously dodgy, and the email topic is pretty mundane. No words like enlargement or baldness. Also, since I tried a hack in the registry to allow myself to see word docs in emails, it now forces me to save rather than open directly (which is a complete pain). I added extensions to Level1Remove and that doesn't seem to help. Any suggestions on that one? robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 149325 | 2003-06-03 02:50:00 | Robo, Not sure (yet) about your first point but you need to modify the registry to fix the second point re .DOC (and other) file extensions: see the following Outlook_XP_Attachment_Security (www.astalavista.com) This works a treat (tested - albeit some time ago... sorry should have mentioned...) I will test your first point and get back to you via this thread. Cheers, Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 149326 | 2003-06-03 03:06:00 | That's what I have done with the Level1 remove, but that just forces me to save it. That is a major hassle with things that I just want to view and move on. I get about three documents a week regarding soccer coaching, plus numerous other items where I just want to glance at something. If I have to save it I tend to decided whether I really want to look at it and don't bother at all with some things. It adds additional steps to the process, and I never asked for it. I am sure it didn't do it a week ago, and I don't think anything has really changed. I can't see anything in the security section of outlook. It is very annoying when the program takes over and the user is not given a choice. I can't think what I could have done to change it. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 149327 | 2003-06-03 03:24:00 | >I can't think what I could have done to change it. Funny you should say that,I thought that sort of thing only happened to the likes of me. Jim B should be along soon,so cheer up. |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 149328 | 2003-06-03 03:33:00 | Robo, I have also used the COM addin mentioned in the follwoing url also to do what you want... Attachment Options (www.slipstick.com). You may wish to use one of those instead of directly modifying the registry by hand... Cheers, Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 149329 | 2003-06-03 04:41:00 | The information on the link from Babe Ruth states - After applying this registry fix or using one of the above tools, the user still has to save the attached file to a system drive before opening it. In effect, the fix rolls the attachment behavior back to Outlook 2000 SR-1, with its included Attachment Security Fix. An end-user cannot bypass this "save to disk" behavior and open the file directly from the mail message, though an Exchange administrator can. You could of course just forward the message to your yourself and open it in Outlook Express Or use a non MS mail client which does not suffer from all these security issues and at least gives the user the option whether to open an attachment or not. To troubleshoot Rules Wizard rules ... If you can't figure out which rules are operating on messages, add an action to each rule to assign a different category. When you look at a message, its categories will tell you which rules fired. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 149330 | 2003-06-03 22:22:00 | Robo, One further utility which may be of use to you in getting outlook xp attachments sorted is Outlook_Attachments (camtech2000.net) Cheers, Babe. |
Babe Ruth (416) | ||
| 149331 | 2003-06-04 21:33:00 | I just found this, but it applies to outlook 2000, and 97, not XP/2002. support.microsoft.com Clearly a new security patch is to blame, but the registry entry mentioned here doesn't seem to have any effect. I hate this sort of thing, changes without you knowing you are getting them. I have had to save about ten files in the last two days when I just needed to view them and move on. Any ideas? robo |
robo (205) | ||
| 149332 | 2003-06-04 23:18:00 | You have the choice of either not being able to open attachments at all or as you are doing saving them and then opening them. If you are on an Exchange Server you may be able to configure it to do what you want. See MS info here (support.microsoft.com) Part of the enjoyment of using MS products which they are unable to make secure by any other means. There are other email programs available. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 149333 | 2003-06-05 00:10:00 | It's such a pig. I can believe it can't be changed, but I don't have Exchange. It's driving me nuts. I reckon I am wasting a huge amount of time with this. It lets me double click and open txt files. Any ideas appreciated. I am continuing to research this. robo. |
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