Cant save attachments in Outlook 2002

[kwunder]

I've sent a friend an attachment, who is running Outlook 2002 and Outlook has blocked it in case it's a virus. How can he alter the settings to allow the attachment ?

Many urgent thanks

 

[DestinysDream]

Don't alter the settings. Alter the attachment. Send him the file as a .txt and have him convert it back to its previous form. It is probably not Outlook that is blocking it, it is probably the firewall that is stripping it.

If anyone calls and says "I know a little something about computers" just tell them to reformat it.

 

[DestinysDream]

If you don't want to do it that way then this should be what you are looking for:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=837388

If anyone calls and says "I know a little something about computers" just tell them to reformat it.

 

[kwunder]

Thanks for the reply !

The knowledge base article though refers to how to block attachments, whereas we need the attachment to be allowed.
I may get him to try your original idea. Do we simply add .txt to the filename ? (I have tried something like this before and ended up with something like file.txt.exe !)

Many thanks
Bryn

 

[DestinysDream]

I thought if you could find the place to add extensions to be blocked then you could also remove them. You just need to save the file so you can view the .exe extension and when you change it to a .txt the icon for the file should change.

If anyone calls and says "I know a little something about computers" just tell them to reformat it.

 

[michbar]

Outlook 2003 and I believe 2002 does not let you unblock attachments. Microsoft's way of protecting us from ourselves. Our Exchange Server is set to block a few more file types than even Outlook and the attachment is stripped before sending so I have gotten into the habit of zipping everything up and then attaching. Most compression programs like Winzip add a few options to the context menu, so all I have to do is right click the file I want to send, choose Zip and E-mail file, and the file will be zipped and automatically added as an attachment to a new e-mail. *.zip are not blocked by Outlook and most people have Winzip or some other compression program installed, so they would only have to double click or open the attachment, let Winzip do its thing, and save the unzipped file.

 

[kwunder]

Thanks Michbar

What a shame that you're not given the option of seeing attachments, as you are with good old Outlook Express. Seems a bit cumbersome of MS to assume that ALL executables are unsafe.

for £85, it would be nice to have the choice....

Thanks guys

 

[Olaf Doschke]

There is a way to unblock attachments. For security reasons I'd only do this temporarily for the one attachment you'd like to get:

start regedit and edit (for Office 2003):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

Add a new string:
Menu->Edit->New->String (not a key, not a dword, not a binary value)
Name it "Level1Remove", then enter the extensions you'd like to be able to save, e.g. exe;vbs.

After saving the attachment rename the string to "Level1RemoveNot".

Bye, Olaf.