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

[Emil J. Volcheck]

One option, which I just tested was to use the PINE mailer on CCIL.

I emailed a message with an attached zip file, which contained an
executable in the zip file.

I had previously made this zip file because the executable would not be
sent by itself.

It's not OE (which I don't use anyway), but it works.

Emil Volcheck ...
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Pete Rossi wrote:

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