Outlook 2003 blocking attachment

b4u

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Nov 8, 2002
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Hi,

I've just received an email with an attached access file, with mdb extension. When opening the email, the attachment isn't visible, and the following message is displayed:

"Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments: report.mdb."

I know this is a security feature implemented in Outlook, so that mdb, exe, com, vb, ... files are not available to the common user. If the file had been zipped or even the extension removed, this problem shouldn't have happened.

Even so, I would like to make a few questions:

[1] The email has been retrieved from mail server to my personal folder, so it's already on my (client) side. But is the attached file just hidden, or has been completly deleted by outlook?

[2] Is it possible to access the file? How can I disable this Outlook feature?


Thank you.
 

Agamar

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Oct 9, 1999
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You will need to get them to resend the file to you as a .zip file. The new security settings on Outlook do not allow any extensions it deems a risk to be run.
 

MysticLlama

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It's just a registry hack to let it through.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Security

(10.0 would be 9.0 for Outlook 2000, or 11.0 for 2003)

Add a string value named Level1Remove

Make the value the extension you want, separated by semicolons.

.mdb;.exe

That would allow it to let through .mdb files and .exe files. (I wouldn't recommend putting in .exe, it was just an example)
 

MichaelD

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Jan 16, 2001
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Or, you can go to Tools\Options\Security and uncheck the box that says "Allow potentially harmful attachments thru" or words to that effect.