erroe when emailing pst file

[Jack S.]

Using Win XP Home SP2 with OL 2002 SP3 on a stand alone notebook [no network]
I need to send an updated contacts list to my boss each quarter. I export the
relevant contacts to a pst file. when I attach the file [2 MB] to an email OL
gives me an error msg that:
This item contains attachments which are potentially unsafe... send anyway?
Selecting "Help" shows a list of extensions which would invoke this error
msg, but pst is not amoung them.
There is no administrator to add extensions to the list.
If I send anyway OL blocks access to the attachment when it is in my sent
items folder.
My boss does not receive the email at all - which may be due to our incoming
security settings - but why am I gttting the message on my end?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

ZIP the file before sending it or change the extension to something mutually
agreed upon

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

PST files are most certainly among the files that trigger the security
prompts.
Read on:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec

 

[Jack S.]

Vince: Thank you, those suggstons are very helpful to solve my problem.
--
Jack S

ZIP the file before sending it or change the extension to something mutually
agreed upon

Using Win XP Home SP2 with OL 2002 SP3 on a stand alone notebook [no
network]
I need to send an updated contacts list to my boss each quarter. I export
the
relevant contacts to a pst file. when I attach the file [2 MB] to an email
OL
gives me an error msg that:
This item contains attachments which are potentially unsafe... send
anyway?
Selecting "Help" shows a list of extensions which would invoke this error
msg, but pst is not amoung them.
There is no administrator to add extensions to the list.
If I send anyway OL blocks access to the attachment when it is in my sent
items folder.
My boss does not receive the email at all - which may be due to our
incoming
security settings - but why am I gttting the message on my end?

 

[Jack S.]

Russ: I surely now know that a pst file can trigger the security alert, I
simply stated the truth that, in OL 2002 sp3, when selecting the help button
when the error message appears, the pst extension is NOT listed as a file
extension which would cause the error message - and there is no other
administrator who might have added the extension - as noted at the bottom of
the help window as a possible source for additional extensions not listed.
--
Jack S

PST files are most certainly among the files that trigger the security
prompts.
Read on:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Using Win XP Home SP2 with OL 2002 SP3 on a stand alone notebook [no
network]
I need to send an updated contacts list to my boss each quarter. I export
the
relevant contacts to a pst file. when I attach the file [2 MB] to an email
OL
gives me an error msg that:
This item contains attachments which are potentially unsafe... send
anyway?
Selecting "Help" shows a list of extensions which would invoke this error
msg, but pst is not amoung them.
There is no administrator to add extensions to the list.
If I send anyway OL blocks access to the attachment when it is in my sent
items folder.
My boss does not receive the email at all - which may be due to our
incoming
security settings - but why am I gttting the message on my end?

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Probably neither the first time nor the last that the Help files leave
something to be desired, I suspect.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Russ: I surely now know that a pst file can trigger the security alert, I
simply stated the truth that, in OL 2002 sp3, when selecting the help
button
when the error message appears, the pst extension is NOT listed as a file
extension which would cause the error message - and there is no other
administrator who might have added the extension - as noted at the bottom
of
the help window as a possible source for additional extensions not listed.
--
Jack S

PST files are most certainly among the files that trigger the security
prompts.
Read on:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#autosec

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

Using Win XP Home SP2 with OL 2002 SP3 on a stand alone notebook [no
network]
I need to send an updated contacts list to my boss each quarter. I
export
the
relevant contacts to a pst file. when I attach the file [2 MB] to an
email
OL
gives me an error msg that:
This item contains attachments which are potentially unsafe... send
anyway?
Selecting "Help" shows a list of extensions which would invoke this
error
msg, but pst is not amoung them.
There is no administrator to add extensions to the list.
If I send anyway OL blocks access to the attachment when it is in my
sent
items folder.
My boss does not receive the email at all - which may be due to our
incoming
security settings - but why am I gttting the message on my end?