Hello JWorley,
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:10:03 -0600 GMT your local time,
which was Saturday, February 19, 2000, 2:10:03 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
JWorley wrote:
> Hi To All You BATty People,
> Thomas wrote:
J>>> I work with a bunch of Outlook / MS Office users and have noticed
J>>> something strange. Whenever they forward a message to me that has an
J>>> attached document I do not get the attached file. The Bat shows that
J>>> the message has an attachment. But it will be displayed as something
J>>> like 7.MSG. When I open it all I see is a blank message. If I
J>>> receive the same forwarded message with another client the attachment
J>>> will invariably be there and show as Whatever.DOC or Whatsit.XLS. Is
J>>> this a bug or am I missing something? I can provide screen captures
J>>> to show the problem if necessary.
>>
>> I receive a lot of .doc and .xls attachments from Outlook users and
>> have no problems with it.
I dump them and then tell the user that my server zaps exe, doc, xls,
bmp's as attachment and can they please zip or jpeg them and resend...
They do...
I see absolutely no need to have to receive bulky stuff if all they
need to do is to compress before sending it.
I blame it normally as part of antivirus protecion and anyway thats
true.
I have had sofar 2 emails with attachments from MS which had a macro
virus...
>> --
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas.
> I did some digging and can now narrow the field a little more. This
> only happens when someone using Outlook receives a message with an
> attachment and then forwards that message to me. Interestingly
> enough, the attachment does end up in the Attachment folder undre The
> Bat. I just cannot see the attachment in the message. This may be an
> IE/Win98 problem. That still does not explain the screen captures I
> included last time. If this happens under TB then it should happen
> under any client.
> __________________________________________________
> Best regards,
> Jeff Worley
> Systems Consultant
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