Outlook 2003 Emailing Attachement Issue with Excel file

[The Man]

We have a accountant who puts together a report in excel from cognos
reports. He takes the cognos report and formats it to excel. During
this format if he was to email this it would be fine but he has to add
in different workbooks into this one excel file. The file is 7mb big
and i checked and the size does not matter. We have sent bigger files
through our mail server with no problems. But when he attaches this
file and emails people in the company we get it 30 times each. All
the information in the workbook is needed. Is there anyone who can
help me with this problem?

 

[F.H. Muffman]

We have a accountant who puts together a report in excel from cognos
reports. He takes the cognos report and formats it to excel. During
this format if he was to email this it would be fine but he has to add
in different workbooks into this one excel file. The file is 7mb big
and i checked and the size does not matter. We have sent bigger files
through our mail server with no problems. But when he attaches this
file and emails people in the company we get it 30 times each. All
the information in the workbook is needed. Is there anyone who can
help me with this problem?

My word. Are all the recipients who receive this attachment internal to
your company? Personally, rather than bog down the network with a large
attachment, I'd put it on a server share and send out a link to the share.

But, that said, what type of mail server? If you look in the sent items,
does it show there more than 1 time?

 

[The Man]

My word. Are all the recipients who receive this attachment internal to
your company? Personally, rather than bog down the network with a large
attachment, I'd put it on a server share and send out a link to the share.

But, that said, what type of mail server? If you look in the sent items,
does it show there more than 1 time?

yes all the recipients are internal. I sent other attachement excel
files and they go out once. Yes it does show that it is repeatedly
going out in the sent outbox.

 

[F.H. Muffman]

yes all the recipients are internal. I sent other attachement excel
files and they go out once. Yes it does show that it is repeatedly
going out in the sent outbox.

How big are the other Excel files you've tested with? What type of mail
server?

And when you've tested, are you testing from his workstation through his
copy of Outlook and his logon?

Also, in the original post, you mentioned that you 'checked and size does
not matter'. You mean in that *this* user sends larger files, or that he
experiences the same problem with other xls files?

 

[F.H. Muffman]

How big are the other Excel files you've tested with? What type of
mail server?

And when you've tested, are you testing from his workstation through
his copy of Outlook and his logon?

Also, in the original post, you mentioned that you 'checked and size
does not matter'. You mean in that *this* user sends larger files,
or that he experiences the same problem with other xls files?

I had one other question: In the recipients mailboxes, each mail message
received is the full 7mb?