Re: Rejections by Outlook Express.

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:34:20 +0100

Aitchat28 wrote:

>I am having attachments to e-mails - either from me ot to me - rejected with the following message.
>"O.E. removed access to the followingunsafe attachments in your mail. "
>I have limited knowledge so I moved the slider on Outlook Express /Internet Options/Privacy to Low from Medium but this has made no difference.
>My Anti Virus is AVG (Freeware) and I am using V6 of OE / IE.

In OE Tools - Options - Security, uncheck the box
'Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that might contain a
virus' 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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