Outlook XP attachments

[Martin Newman]

I thought I underrtood this Outlook attachments security thing. I have a
copy of OL XP running against a Exchnage 2000 server. OL is patched
uptodate.

I have used one of the security tweaking tools to tell OL to be able to get
at exe files etc. I have checked that the tool has tweaked the Level1remove
registry entry as required.

However, Outlook perisistently refueses to let me get at .eml attachments
even though that is the very way that Exchange sends you a copy of the
offending messgae with an NDR. I have not had this on other OL/'E2000
installations. In any case EML does not seem to be on the list of
level1/level2 expensions. just for safety I have manually added it to that
registry key that controls level1/level2 stuff, all to no avail.

ANy ideas

TIA

 

[Martin Newman]

Thanks Sue

NDR's (with the attchments that show up attached eml's) show that there are
attchments (paper clip in headers list) but they just aren't there when the
mail is opened. If you view the mail via OWA they are there. This happened
before I thjought about or touched the OL security settings. Thinking this
was just the normal OL security stuff I got one of the "level 1 tweaking
tolols" - can't remeber which one and the machine is 50 miles away with no
remote access at the moment). That made no difference so I tried the direct
registry hack.

Thanks agin for your interest

Outlook doesn't block .eml files. What are the exact symptoms you're seeing?
I would start by removing unnecessary entries from the Level1Remove value.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.slipstick.com/books/jumpstart.htm

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Are these IPM.Report NDRs or IPM.Note? I would fiddle around with Outlook Spy to try to figure out how the attachments are actually attached.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

IPM.Report is a very complex item. If you can't see them, they're almost certainly not going to be available via Outlook objects. The attachments might available via CDO, however. That would be worth trying. (I'd try it here, but I don't have any NDRs that fit your description.)
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.slipstick.com/books/jumpstart.htm

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

It depends on the NDR. Those you get from back non-Exchange mail systems are not going to be in IPM.Report messages.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.slipstick.com/books/jumpstart.htm