[CCIL-user] Outlook Express & CCIL's Webmail - Not PermittingAttachments

[Pete Rossi]

->From: "Jesse \"Wizard\" Migdal" <jam544@psu.edu>
->To: "'Mary Ann Miceri'" <downingm@ccil.org>, <ccil-user@lists.ccil.org>
->Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:27:38 -0400
->
->Dear Mary Ann,
-> 
->            Pennsylvania State University has been having similar
->problems regarding attachments with its own webmail service.
->As a user the best thing you can do right now is find a workaround to
->the problem.  Some of the ones that seem to work:
-> 
->1.       Using odd file extentions to trick the browser into not opening
->the attachment:  ie *.3dg or *.opb
->2.       Including the files in a compressed folder (zip)  before
->attaching them.
-> 
->If we find a more permanent solution I will pass it along. 

I ran into this problem at work.. or a variation of it.  A customer
was trying to send me a .ZIP file that contained an .EXE file.

Our corporate mail server (MS) was blocking the incoming mail since
somehow it was looking in the .ZIP file and seeing that it contained 
an .EXE file.

The solution was to have the customer re-send the message and change
the .EXE suffix to something else (.TXT) before zipping it and attaching it. 

Passing this along since simply zipping the file may not do the
trick.  Another option might be to change the suffix of the ZIP
file so the mailer will not try to un-ZIP it.


Boy, between this kind of stuff and the SPAM problem, it's amazing
that we can still use e-mail for anything useful anymore.



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Pete Rossi - WA3NNA
pete@pjrnet.com
wa3nna@ccil.org