Outlook and attachments, not OE

[Guest]

Hi

I did a search before posting and found the answer to my question for
Outlook Express, however this question is for Outlook

I attached a MS Access file to my outgoing email. I received the warning
about others using Outlook may not be able to access the attached file. I
decided to send anyway...

Now Outlook is unwilling to send the email and I cant get access to my
access file...surely I can choose to send and receive attachments?

Thanks

 

[Alan]

Hi,

As I am a systems developer using MS Access I run into this problem at work
all the time using Outlook 2002. There used to be a registry "fix" published
in the MS knowledge base -- at least in Outlook 2000 -- that allowed Outlook
to accept an MDB file. However, that would mean that all possible recipients
of MS Access files would need to tweak their registries, not the best of all
possible worlds.

What I now do is to rename the MDB file to have a "txt" extension and
instruct the recipient to rename it back to have an MDB extension after
he/she receives it. This method works well for me.

Alan

 

[Guest]

Hi, Alan. I will consider doing this. Bit of a pain when I receive similar
files from others that don't know about this work around...thats why I
started using OE again as I was having to ask the senders to re send and open
in OE to get at file

Cheers

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Blocked file types in Outlook:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP030850041033.aspx

This is not something that can be overridden. You should check with an
Outlook group for further assistance.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the link

Hi,

Blocked file types in Outlook:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP030850041033.aspx

This is not something that can be overridden. You should check with an
Outlook group for further assistance.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Alan]

Hi again,

I found the KB article that explains the registry tweak. It's at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829982

Another suggestion that the article gives is to use a compression utility
(such as WinZip) and have the recipient unzip it after they receive the
email. Zip files go through fine in Outlook.

Alan

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the link...and yes zipping the file! Thanks for that...

 

[NobodyMan]

Hi

I did a search before posting and found the answer to my question for
Outlook Express, however this question is for Outlook

I attached a MS Access file to my outgoing email. I received the warning
about others using Outlook may not be able to access the attached file. I
decided to send anyway...

Now Outlook is unwilling to send the email and I cant get access to my
access file...surely I can choose to send and receive attachments?

Thanks

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