problem with email attachment
 

My Outlook 2002 has now decided to go on a selective strike of sorts. Its not allowing me to send out emails with files attached... (????) Could I have some sort of weird virus?

Ive not been able to send out anything with a file, and we are not talking big files here.... its like 100K worth of word and excel files... any ideas whats going on?

Thanks.

Try sending the email with the CONTROL-ENTER keys instead of send.

Gaucho100k, I've been following your woes with your Wintel notebook with sympathy and commiseration. First it was a problem synching your Palm, then IE fatal error, and now your email client won't send attachments. And that's just in the last few weeks! :(

Perhaps it's time to move to Mac? ;)

Or an etch-a-sketch.

Apparently you're not alone:

http://www.aplawrence.com/Blog/B851.html
http://experts.about.com/q/1541/3515952.htm
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Appl..._20852454.html

Is the recipient using Outlook 2002? It blocks many types of attachments from being opened or executed:

http://ask-leo.com/archives/000073.html
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290497

One solution is to try sending the attachment as a .ZIP file.

Thanks for the advice and the sympathy.

I will confess that I have a sort of mental block with Macs. Its an embedded sort of branding/image thing.... I just dont see myself using a Mac. I think I have Mac-o-fobia... :eek: :D

I think Im just going to weather it out until sometime next year, when I hope to get a new T43 or T50 with what will hopefully be a more stable Win OS and Office Suite..... as they say, hope is the last thing one looses... :o ;) :p

PS to Scotty-- you better have some solutions for me ready..... :D

Just think of it as running Unix with a really good GUI shell that supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ...

Real men don't use Mac's :p

My point exactly.... :D

what's not to like?

microkernel
bsd
OO top layer
and M$ office to boot.