re: Question about 'Force Outlook XP to allow EXE file attachments'
Sunday, August 15, 2004 at 8:35 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tom "Church" Churchill
(3 messages posted)
You just have to find the entry in the registry (under Office/9.0/Outlook/ probably)
that has an Outlook entry with a "security" entry under it. It worked for me when
I tried it on my Outlook 2000. After you add the entry to the Security section,
you will have to close Outlook and restart it. Even though you do all this and Outlook
will then permit you to send and receive the attachments, you may find that your
e-mail server also detects the attachments and prohibits them, as they did in my
case. I tried sending myself some outlawed attachments, and my email server blocked
them. You can tell by looking at the email copy saved in the "SENT" folder in Outlook.
If Outlook blocked it, it tells you near the top of the saved copy of your sent
email. If your server blocks them, you will get a rejection and a notice of "Mail
Delivery System Failed", etc. Good luck.
On Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 3:26 am, dm wrote:
>I have a question about Force
>Outlook XP to allow EXE file attachments:
>
>I am using Outlook 2000 and Windows XP Home edition. Is there a similar method to
>prevent Outlook 2000 from blocking what it considers to be dangerous attachments?
>
>I tried following the instructions posted here for Outlook XP (which I have previously
>used successfully on a machine running Windows XP and Outlook XP), however it didn't
>seem to work on this machine with Windows XP and Outlook 2000.
>
>I work a lot with Access .mdb, .mde, .vbs etc. If the files are zipped then Outlook
>2000 will let them through, but not if they are unzipped.
>
>Any tips would be gratefully appreciated.
>
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