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| Thread ID: 60254 | 2005-07-27 02:56:00 | Word Attachment Problem | Winston001 (3612) | Press F1 |
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| 376024 | 2005-07-27 02:56:00 | An odd problem. A person using Outlook sends me Word attachments, as well as to many others. The other recipients all receive the attachment and can open it. But in my case, no attachment. The paperclip icon appears beside the header in Incoming Mail, but not on the right hand side of the message itself. This occurs on two PCs in our office, not just a single machine. Both allow attachments. OE6 and XP. But wait - there is more. The same email sent to a third party and forwarded to me now contains the attachment which I can open. The only intervening action is that the third party opened the attachment (to have a nosey) before forwarding it. I have no trouble opening attachments from other people. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 376025 | 2005-07-27 03:49:00 | Spam filtering software or AV? | Murray P (44) | ||
| 376026 | 2005-07-27 04:07:00 | Maybe they have a rule on their computer when they send an email to you, that strips attachments. | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 376027 | 2005-07-27 04:46:00 | Hmmm. We use AVG. And yes, we do send jokes to this person. Perhaps the stripping of attachments on Reply is applying to all email sent to us. Apparently an IT person looked at the other persons computer and couldn't tell why this was happening. Mind you, they also couldn't sort out some address book problems either. I created new address folders in about 10 minutes. :thumbs: |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 376028 | 2005-07-27 06:27:00 | Your using Outlook Express? If that's the case Outlook may have deemed the file as unsafe, therefore the attachment icon shows but the file is greyed out and you can't get to it. There's a couple of settings to change I recall, either security or options to tell it to go away and let you into all and sundry attachments you may recieve. Either that or go and buy the bigger version or get a real email program. :p And don't go anywhere near Incredimail - biggest piece of bloatware and crap I've ever seen. :2cents: |
EX-WESTY (221) | ||
| 376029 | 2005-07-27 06:34:00 | or get a real email program. :p Eudora. :thumbs: | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 376030 | 2005-07-27 08:33:00 | Yes it would be interesting for me to use another program but not much help to the rest of the people I work with. In my experience most aren't interested in computers and certainly aren't interested in new programs. | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 376031 | 2005-07-27 09:41:00 | Hello Again and again I hear and read about Eudora: what is the good thing with it? What's better then OE or Outlook or even Mozilla(mozilla suite). I am looking at options especially when it comes down to convert a backup to a text and save any attachments? I am looking forward to hear the good news :) Gion |
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| 376032 | 2005-07-27 10:59:00 | I'm still reeling from Ex-Westy's suggestion that anyone like Winston (who runs a professional office) would touch Incredimail with a 10ft pole. Incredimail is for newbs who know no better (Yes, I did install it originally myself ) and teenagers who love smileys - plus middle-aged relatives of mine who have no idea that emails they send me have a whole row of winking/grinning/bouncing/blinking/infuriating faces along the bottom of every one - no matter what the subject.. (Just had one visiting & showed him on my machine what he was sending. They didn't show on his, so he had no idea. As we'd been discussing a Will, he was a little embarrassed...) So I guess this is a diversion on the thread subject to warn about Incredimail - and this is only about its appearance. It has other resource-hogging disadvantages. (Next task - when I've time - could be: Why:"touch it with a 10ft pole"? Must be something about 10 feet historically?) |
Laura (43) | ||
| 376033 | 2005-07-27 11:01:00 | Again and again I hear and read about Eudora: what is the good thing with it? Well for a start it is not OE so therefore is not a target for MS oriented malware . There are heaps of other reasons I prefer it, including being much easier to backup and restore both emails and settings than OE and I also like the way attachments go into their own folder automatically . Also, the paid version's spam/junk mail filter is excellent . Have a look at this page ( . eudora . com/email/features/" target="_blank">www . eudora . com) for an extensive list of Eudora's features . |
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