Attachments being stripped

[Idiamin]

Outlook 2003 removes attached executable files from incoming mail. Is this
by default and can I set it so it doesn't.
I sent this executable from my work to my home email and expected to receive
it. Could it have hidden it somewhere locally (quarantined) or would it have
left it at my ISP's mail server?

TIA
Idi

 

[Pat Willener]

I don't think it is Outlook stripping these attachments; more likely the
mail server, outgoing or incoming. Executable attachments are dangerous,
even if you sent it yourself, so mail servers routinely strip certain
types of attachments.

Executables should be compressed into a ZIP file before attaching. Most
mail servers allow ZIP file attachments.

 

[Gordon]

Outlook 2003 removes attached executable files from incoming mail. Is this
by default and can I set it so it doesn't.
I sent this executable from my work to my home email and expected to receive
it. Could it have hidden it somewhere locally (quarantined) or would it have
left it at my ISP's mail server?

TIA
Idi

Do you mean that the attachment is not there, or that Outlook denies you
access to that attachment?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

A registry entry lets you customize the list of blocked files. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm#ol2002 for links to info and tools.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers