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by purrobin

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I have a LAN fo 10 Windows 2000 cleint machines, Exchange Server 5.5, Winnt4.0 Server. I have trouble sending certain file types such as .exe or so from Microsoft Outlook 2000. Outlook blocks this attachment from sending and receiving. I have lookedinto the Help section on Outlook, but it says outlook blocks certain file types for security.
However, can I turn this cookies or security off somehow so that I can sen the file attachments to my users.
Can you help me to solve this problem.

Thank you

Robin

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by tduval

Build in security functions in outlook 2k now automaticaly block attached .exe files.
There's no solutions to remove this security.

Anyway, you can always rename, winzip, or winace your file. Non exe files are still accepted.

by beermonster

Hi,
Outlook attachment security is a bit simplistic in as much as it looks at the file extension to decide whether or not to block it. You can either zip the file and have your users extract it, or you can rename the file with a different extension and have your users rename it back. Outlook security can be tweaked via the registry to allow certain extensions through, but this would need to be done on all of your outlook 2k clients in order for the attachment to be recieved correctly. hope this helps....

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