Actually, they aren't the only ones. I have a website with Freeservers, and they won't support ".odt" files either. What is REALLY annoying, when you hit this they say "send a message to support this" and then when I do, they say "no, we aren't going to support that." I was going to see about escalating it but never got around to it.

I think a lot of the problem is that they want to check for viruses and such but THEY DON'T KNOW HOW! And they don't want to put forth the effort to write a virus checker for what THEY THINK is a never-used file type.

Some of there problems will go away as ODF gains traction ... not sure if M$N will ever get the word, though (unless a judge tells them :-) )

Jim Hartley

James Knott wrote:
John Meyer wrote:
MARY RETTIG wrote:
I am a very new user and I'm having the following problem with using openoffice.

I have created some very simple text documents using the writer program. 
Regardless of the file type I have attempted to save them as, this is what is 
happening.

When I attempt to attach these files to an e-mail (MSN is my provider) I get 
the following message:

"Access to the following unsafe attachments have been blocked".

To the best of my knowledge I do not have any virus on my computer.

Any ideas?


Barring MSN changing policies, the first thing I'd do is zip up the file
and see if it goes through that way.


If it is the case they're actually blocking ODF files, then perhaps a
complaint or two to the relevant regulators would be in order.  I'm sure
that judge in Europe would love to hear about it.  ;-)



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