KB article 303650 not solving my problem

[Eric C.]

All,

I have seen this knowledge base article recommended many times in this
group to fix issues with Access and untrusted sites. I am getting
that same error attempting to open an .mdb attachment from an email in
Outlook 2000 and cannot figure out how to correct it. I have added
the FQDNs and IPs of all 4 Exchange servers here at work into my local
intranet zone in IE, and still cannot open the attachment. The people
I support don't want to work with the database, simply open it each
morning and scan thru it quickly, so they don't really find saving it
to the desktop and opening it an acceptable solution. Can anyone give
me any insight?

Thanks,
Eric

 

[Larry Linson]

That is an Outlook issue -- for your protection, Microsoft included in a
Service Pack / security patch that Outlook will not allow you to open files
with certain extensions (may not even allow saving them, certainly later
versions do not). That's why I don't use Outlook. <SIGH>

I believe there may be a Registry hack that you can use to circumvent it,
but don't know the details. The Outlook newsgroup would be a better place to
see if you can find out about that.

An alternative would be to use a different mail reader, if you can't modify
the Registry settings.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP