Outlook Express Email Attachments

Windows XP Media Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8
Outlook Express 6 (set to allow opening of attachments)
AVG Anti Virus (set to allow attachments)

I am having an issue with receiving Ecel and Word attachments with Outlook
Express. There is no paperclip in the top right corner to click on, so most
fixes I have read about do not work.

I know the attachment is someplace in the message as the size of the
received message matches the size of the message when I sent it.

Which leads me to the questions:
Is it an Outlook Express issue?
MY home IP provider issue (I receive other attachments from other people)
My work IP provider?

When I double click the message, and go to File/Properties, Details tab,
then click Message Source, and scroll down, there is a mile of gobeldy gook
added below the message body.

Thanks for any help or tips.
Jim

I can send Excel and Word attachments from Home (where I have the issue with
OE) to work (Outlook) no problem. It is from work to home I am having the
issue.

Jim

"Jim in Canada" wrote:

Windows XP Media Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8
Outlook Express 6 (set to allow opening of attachments)
AVG Anti Virus (set to allow attachments)

I am having an issue with receiving Ecel and Word attachments with Outlook
Express. There is no paperclip in the top right corner to click on, so most
fixes I have read about do not work.

I know the attachment is someplace in the message as the size of the
received message matches the size of the message when I sent it.

Which leads me to the questions:
Is it an Outlook Express issue?
MY home IP provider issue (I receive other attachments from other people)
My work IP provider?

When I double click the message, and go to File/Properties, Details tab,
then click Message Source, and scroll down, there is a mile of gobeldy gook
added below the message body.

Thanks for any help or tips.
Jim

1. Disable or uninstall AVG's email scanning component. It provides no
additional protection, it may be causing this problem, and even Symantec
says it's not necessary:

QP
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions.
/QP
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106

Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm

2. If the Sender is using MS Outlook (not MS Outlook Express), ask him to
send messages to you only in Plain Text format, especially if there's an
attachment.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Jim in Canada wrote:
Windows XP Media Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8
Outlook Express 6 (set to allow opening of attachments)
AVG Anti Virus (set to allow attachments)

I am having an issue with receiving Ecel and Word attachments with Outlook
Express. There is no paperclip in the top right corner to click on, so
most
fixes I have read about do not work.

I know the attachment is someplace in the message as the size of the
received message matches the size of the message when I sent it.

Which leads me to the questions:
Is it an Outlook Express issue?
MY home IP provider issue (I receive other attachments from other people)
My work IP provider?

When I double click the message, and go to File/Properties, Details tab,
then click Message Source, and scroll down, there is a mile of gobeldy
gook
added below the message body.

Thanks for any help or tips.
Jim

Uninstalled AVG.
Uninstalled Spybot
Uninstalled Adaware

Forwarded (Is that a word?) An email on my Blackberry with an Excel
attachment, and it came through

Installed our internet provider's version of F-Secure, and it still works.
So far so good.

I double checked the Message Sourse again and the same gobly gook is there,
but now the attachment icon is available.

Jim

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

1. Disable or uninstall AVG's email scanning component. It provides no
additional protection, it may be causing this problem, and even Symantec
says it's not necessary:

QP
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including email and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection, keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have
the most recent virus definitions.
/QP
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106

Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm

2. If the Sender is using MS Outlook (not MS Outlook Express), ask him to
send messages to you only in Plain Text format, especially if there's an
attachment.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Jim in Canada wrote:
Windows XP Media Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8
Outlook Express 6 (set to allow opening of attachments)
AVG Anti Virus (set to allow attachments)

I am having an issue with receiving Ecel and Word attachments with Outlook
Express. There is no paperclip in the top right corner to click on, so
most
fixes I have read about do not work.

I know the attachment is someplace in the message as the size of the
received message matches the size of the message when I sent it.

Which leads me to the questions:
Is it an Outlook Express issue?
MY home IP provider issue (I receive other attachments from other people)
My work IP provider?

When I double click the message, and go to File/Properties, Details tab,
then click Message Source, and scroll down, there is a mile of gobeldy
gook
added below the message body.

Thanks for any help or tips.
Jim

I said nothing about uninstalling AVG (or Spybot or Ad-Aware), I recommended
disabling AVG's email scanning component or removing (uninstalling) the
component.

Is the sender of the message where the attachment was missing using MS
Outlook, Jim?


Jim in Canada wrote:
Uninstalled AVG.
Uninstalled Spybot
Uninstalled Adaware

Forwarded (Is that a word?) An email on my Blackberry with an Excel
attachment, and it came through

Installed our internet provider's version of F-Secure, and it still works.
So far so good.

I double checked the Message Sourse again and the same gobly gook is
there,
but now the attachment icon is available.

Jim

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

1. Disable or uninstall AVG's email scanning component. It provides no
additional protection, it may be causing this problem, and even Symantec
says it's not necessary:

QP
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against viruses
that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect
scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including
email
and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of
this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection,
keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you
have the most recent virus definitions.
/QP
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106

Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm

2. If the Sender is using MS Outlook (not MS Outlook Express), ask him to
send messages to you only in Plain Text format, especially if there's an
attachment.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Jim in Canada wrote:
Windows XP Media Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8
Outlook Express 6 (set to allow opening of attachments)
AVG Anti Virus (set to allow attachments)

I am having an issue with receiving Ecel and Word attachments with
Outlook
Express. There is no paperclip in the top right corner to click on, so
most
fixes I have read about do not work.

I know the attachment is someplace in the message as the size of the
received message matches the size of the message when I sent it.

Which leads me to the questions:
Is it an Outlook Express issue?
MY home IP provider issue (I receive other attachments from other
people)
My work IP provider?

When I double click the message, and go to File/Properties, Details tab,
then click Message Source, and scroll down, there is a mile of gobeldy
gook
added below the message body.

Thanks for any help or tips.
Jim

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message

1. Disable or uninstall AVG's email scanning component. It provides
no additional protection, it may be causing this problem, and even
Symantec says it's not necessary:

Symantec speaks for AVG? I don't THINK so!


QP
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against
viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus
Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard
drive, including email and email attachments. Email Scanning is just
another layer on top of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is
providing the maximum protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run
LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that you have the most recent virus
definitions. /QP
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106

Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm

2. If the Sender is using MS Outlook (not MS Outlook Express), ask
him to send messages to you only in Plain Text format, especially if
there's an attachment.

How is that relevant in any way to the OP's questions? Outlook handles
attachments fine in html or plain text modes.


Jim in Canada wrote:
Windows XP Media Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8
Outlook Express 6 (set to allow opening of attachments)
AVG Anti Virus (set to allow attachments)

I am having an issue with receiving Ecel and Word attachments with
Outlook Express. There is no paperclip in the top right corner to
click on, so most
fixes I have read about do not work.

I know the attachment is someplace in the message as the size of the
received message matches the size of the message when I sent it.

Which leads me to the questions:
Is it an Outlook Express issue?
MY home IP provider issue (I receive other attachments from other
people) My work IP provider?

When I double click the message, and go to File/Properties, Details
tab, then click Message Source, and scroll down, there is a mile of
gobeldy gook
added below the message body.

Thanks for any help or tips.
Jim

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message

I said nothing about uninstalling AVG (or Spybot or Ad-Aware), I
recommended disabling AVG's email scanning component or removing
(uninstalling) the component.

You did, in the case of "(uninstalling" the component" which many people
took to mean AVG since it was vague. If you meant to uninstall the
email scanning component, that's what you should have said. The devil's
in the details as someone here used to say.



Is the sender of the message where the attachment was missing using MS
Outlook, Jim?

How is that relevant?

Twayne



Jim in Canada wrote:
Uninstalled AVG.
Uninstalled Spybot
Uninstalled Adaware

Forwarded (Is that a word?) An email on my Blackberry with an Excel
attachment, and it came through

Installed our internet provider's version of F-Secure, and it still
works. So far so good.

I double checked the Message Sourse again and the same gobly gook is
there,
but now the attachment icon is available.

Jim

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

1. Disable or uninstall AVG's email scanning component. It
provides no additional protection, it may be causing this problem,
and even Symantec says it's not necessary:

QP
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against
viruses that are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus
Auto-Protect scans incoming files as they are saved to your hard
drive, including email
and email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top
of this. To make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum
protection, keep Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly
to ensure that you have the most recent virus definitions.
/QP
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106

Why you don't need your anti-virus to scan your email
http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tuto...ning/index.htm

2. If the Sender is using MS Outlook (not MS Outlook Express), ask
him to send messages to you only in Plain Text format, especially
if there's an attachment.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Jim in Canada wrote:
Windows XP Media Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8
Outlook Express 6 (set to allow opening of attachments)
AVG Anti Virus (set to allow attachments)

I am having an issue with receiving Ecel and Word attachments with
Outlook
Express. There is no paperclip in the top right corner to click
on, so most
fixes I have read about do not work.

I know the attachment is someplace in the message as the size of
the received message matches the size of the message when I sent
it. Which leads me to the questions:
Is it an Outlook Express issue?
MY home IP provider issue (I receive other attachments from other
people)
My work IP provider?

When I double click the message, and go to File/Properties,
Details tab, then click Message Source, and scroll down, there is
a mile of gobeldy gook
added below the message body.

Thanks for any help or tips.
Jim

If messages are sent using the Exchange family of mail programs
(includes Windows Messaging or Outlook97/98/2000+) and the option to use
Rich Text Format is selected, it puts the RTF message (and any attached
files) in an attachment called WINMAIL.DAT (application/ms-tnef). But
this attachment is useless to most other mail programs. In some mail
programs (e.g. Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail), the
attachment won't even be visible.

The Exchange user can turn off the RTF option for messages to selected
recipients. Note that if sending via an Exchange server, the Exchange
server administrator may be overriding the mail client settings. In
this case, the administrator will need to make changes on the server.
In some cases, the Exchange server actually removes the attachments to
some recipients.

For additional information, see the MS-TNEF WINMAIL.DAT Attachments
section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...de.htm#ms-tnef
At the above link is information on several utilities that can be used
to recover the attachment if the sender can't or won't resend it in
plain text (or HTML) mode.



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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Jim in Canada" wrote in message
...
I can send Excel and Word attachments from Home (where I have the
issue with
OE) to work (Outlook) no problem. It is from work to home I am having
the
issue.

Jim

"Jim in Canada" wrote:

Windows XP Media Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8
Outlook Express 6 (set to allow opening of attachments)
AVG Anti Virus (set to allow attachments)

I am having an issue with receiving Ecel and Word attachments with
Outlook
Express. There is no paperclip in the top right corner to click on,
so most
fixes I have read about do not work.

I know the attachment is someplace in the message as the size of the
received message matches the size of the message when I sent it.

Which leads me to the questions:
Is it an Outlook Express issue?
MY home IP provider issue (I receive other attachments from other
people)
My work IP provider?

When I double click the message, and go to File/Properties, Details
tab,
then click Message Source, and scroll down, there is a mile of
gobeldy gook
added below the message body.

Thanks for any help or tips.
Jim

That's good information Michael! Thanks much!!
I'm so used to seeing rtf/html as though it didn't matter which that I
never thought about the Exchange Server actions. Great catch, IMO.
Learned something todayg! Well written paper, BTW.

Regards,

Twayne`



"Michael Santovec" wrote in message

If messages are sent using the Exchange family of mail programs
(includes Windows Messaging or Outlook97/98/2000+) and the option to
use Rich Text Format is selected, it puts the RTF message (and any
attached files) in an attachment called WINMAIL.DAT
(application/ms-tnef). But this attachment is useless to most other
mail programs. In some mail programs (e.g. Outlook Express, Windows
Mail, Windows Live Mail), the attachment won't even be visible.

The Exchange user can turn off the RTF option for messages to selected
recipients. Note that if sending via an Exchange server, the Exchange
server administrator may be overriding the mail client settings. In
this case, the administrator will need to make changes on the server.
In some cases, the Exchange server actually removes the attachments to
some recipients.

For additional information, see the MS-TNEF WINMAIL.DAT Attachments
section of
Decoding Internet Attachments - A Tutorial
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_san...de.htm#ms-tnef
At the above link is information on several utilities that can be used
to recover the attachment if the sender can't or won't resend it in
plain text (or HTML) mode.




"Jim in Canada" wrote in
message ...
I can send Excel and Word attachments from Home (where I have the
issue with
OE) to work (Outlook) no problem. It is from work to home I am having
the
issue.

Jim

"Jim in Canada" wrote:

Windows XP Media Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8
Outlook Express 6 (set to allow opening of attachments)
AVG Anti Virus (set to allow attachments)

I am having an issue with receiving Ecel and Word attachments with
Outlook
Express. There is no paperclip in the top right corner to click on,
so most
fixes I have read about do not work.

I know the attachment is someplace in the message as the size of the
received message matches the size of the message when I sent it.

Which leads me to the questions:
Is it an Outlook Express issue?
MY home IP provider issue (I receive other attachments from other
people)
My work IP provider?

When I double click the message, and go to File/Properties, Details
tab,
then click Message Source, and scroll down, there is a mile of
gobeldy gook
added below the message body.

Thanks for any help or tips.
Jim

Jim in Canada wrote:
Windows XP Media Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 8
Outlook Express 6 (set to allow opening of attachments)
AVG Anti Virus (set to allow attachments)

I am having an issue with receiving Ecel and Word attachments with Outlook
Express. There is no paperclip in the top right corner to click on, so most
fixes I have read about do not work.

I know the attachment is someplace in the message as the size of the
received message matches the size of the message when I sent it.

Which leads me to the questions:
Is it an Outlook Express issue?
MY home IP provider issue (I receive other attachments from other people)
My work IP provider?

When I double click the message, and go to File/Properties, Details tab,
then click Message Source, and scroll down, there is a mile of gobeldy gook
added below the message body.

Thanks for any help or tips.
Jim
Hi,

There is a tool called Advanced Outlook Express Repair. I have used it to
repair many corrupt Outlook pst files on my damaged disks successfully. Its
homepage is http://www.datanumen.com/aor/ .

Alan

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