Outlook and .gz

[KimLadBwien]

Recently (in the last two weeks) I have started getting part of my emails
with a .html.gz extent. Other times the .doc is being changed to .doc.gz for
attached files.
I am using Office 2007 Professional and have not had this problem until
recently. I can not read the emails which is beginning to be a real problem.
I have searched for this problem in this and other locations and not found a
suggestion.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

What type of mail server do you use? Do you have any antivirus or antispam
scanners checking incoming email? GZ is an extension used for compressed
files (similar to .zip) so some thing somewhere along the way is compressing
the files.

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[KimLadBwien]

OK, so someone, maybe my pop3 server, is compressing parts of my email. I
have in the past turned off all the filtering since they don't always agree
with me on what I should receive. If it is not my server, is there a way to
set Outlook 2007 so it will uncompress these files. Some of the compressed
content is somewhat critical to me.

Mike

What type of mail server do you use? Do you have any antivirus or antispam
scanners checking incoming email? GZ is an extension used for compressed
files (similar to .zip) so some thing somewhere along the way is compressing
the files.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

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Recently (in the last two weeks) I have started getting part of my emails
with a .html.gz extent. Other times the .doc is being changed to .doc.gz
for
attached files.
I am using Office 2007 Professional and have not had this problem until
recently. I can not read the emails which is beginning to be a real
problem.
I have searched for this problem in this and other locations and not found
a
suggestion.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

OK, so someone, maybe my pop3 server, is compressing parts of my email.

That wouldn't make much sense, unless the mail server is Linux and running
some kind of automatic gzip utility, but that would be a misconfiguration. I
think it's more likely you've installed an automatic compression tool on your
PC.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

outlook needs an addin installed to compress/uncompress files. Most good zip
applications support GZ - like winzip (www.winzip.com) - there may be some
free ones that support it but Windows compressed folders do not (AFAIK).

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OK, so someone, maybe my pop3 server, is compressing parts of my email. I
have in the past turned off all the filtering since they don't always
agree
with me on what I should receive. If it is not my server, is there a way
to
set Outlook 2007 so it will uncompress these files. Some of the compressed
content is somewhat critical to me.

Mike

What type of mail server do you use? Do you have any antivirus or
antispam
scanners checking incoming email? GZ is an extension used for compressed
files (similar to .zip) so some thing somewhere along the way is
compressing
the files.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:
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Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
(e-mail address removed)




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Recently (in the last two weeks) I have started getting part of my
emails
with a .html.gz extent. Other times the .doc is being changed to
.doc.gz
for
attached files.
I am using Office 2007 Professional and have not had this problem until
recently. I can not read the emails which is beginning to be a real
problem.
I have searched for this problem in this and other locations and not
found
a
suggestion.

 

[Pat Willener]

WinZip also has an 'E-mail Companion' add-in for Outlook. Perfect for
this case.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The WinZip Email Companion is only for sending out messages with
attachments, you can select whether to zip them manually or automatically.
It won't do anything with incoming emails with attachments of any sort (I
wrote it so I'm sure of that).

 

[Pat Willener]

Thank you for the clarification; I have it installed, but never used it.