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Edit received Outlook Express message

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by testgeek

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I'm looking for a registry entry that will allow Outlook Express to edit received messages in a manner similar to what Outlook does (and has since it was first released). At the very least, should be able to delete, edit, or replace attachments, andedit the subject line. Using reply or forward won't cut it. Needs to work on OE6, helpful if it also works with some previous versions. If there's a solution on the Microsoft KB, I didn't find it. A solution with some method other than a registry value could be acceptable, even if tricky to implement, as long as it's very easy to use afterwards.

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by army45

New security measures that improve the dialog box warnings for attachments were included in Microsoft Outlook beginning with Outlook 2000 (SR-1). The file extensions that trigger the more secure warnings can be managed through the registry.

Openyour registry and find the key below, if the 'Security' sub-key does not already exist then create it.

Create two new string values, or modify the existing values, called "AddWarningFileTypes" and "RemoveWarningFileTypes".

To include additional file extensions to receive the warning, add the extensions, seperated by a semicolon, to the "AddWarningFileTypes" value (not including the leading period (.)). For example, to add Word and Excel documents to this list you would set the value to equal "DOC;XLS".

Removing warnings is the same but in reverse, for example, to remove the warning for registry files and VBScript files your would set the "RemoveWarningFileTypes" value to equal "REG;VBS".

Restart Outlook for the changes to take effect.

(Default) REG_SZ (value not set)
AddWarningFileTypes REG_SZ "DOC;XLS"
RemoveWarningFileTypes REG_SZ "REG;VBS"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\Sec...

Settings
Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\
Security]
Value Name: AddWarningFileTypes, RemoveWarningFileTypes
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Value Data: File Extensions (Seperated a Semicolon)

by testgeek

This is interesting information about Outlook, but not related to my question about editing messages received in Outlook Express. Thanks for giving it a shot.

by testgeek

Triple the points....any more interesting? Perhaps there just isn't a way, but I'm not ready to give up just yet. Thanks to all!

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