To Nor:t Problems with Email Attachments

[Boisforas]

Boisforas here: Your problem sounds allot like a problem myself & Mike Scano just had. He solved it but I'm not sure how. You can contact him at MScano1@optline.net-Good luck, Eric

[Nort]

Thanks much.

[Nort]

When I send an email to Mike Scano, using the email address you suggest, it fails to go through. I get the following message:



This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed permanently:

* mscano1@optline.net

Reason: Permanent Error

[Von Earlmann]

When I send an email to Mike Scano, using the email address you suggest, it fails to go through.  I get the following message:



This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.      

Delivery to the following recipients failed permanently:

  * mscano1@optline.net

Reason: Permanent Error

first 2 letters are in caps :-)

[Scaz]

Hi guys,

Eric B. tells me you've been having problems sending attachments through email.  If you're using Outlook (any version), this is because the Microsoft security update from about a week ago created a weird problem.  Any attachment with an ! symbol or more than two .. in a row in its file name gets identified as a potential threat and gets blocked by Outlook (for your safety, of course).  

The fix is one of two things.

What I did was to uninstall the last Outlook 2007 security update from my computer.  Once I did that, everything was fine.

If you don't like option #1, then you could just name your game file without ! symbols.

Hope this helps until Microsoft resolves the problem. ( they are aware of it).

Here's a link to the bug report:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msof...bfa441ab3d

[Nort]

Thanks much. I really appreciate your help.

[Warhorse]

I use Windows live mail to exchange turns with these symbols, no problems!!

[Scud]

Hi guys,

Eric B. tells me you've been having problems sending attachments through email.  If you're using Outlook (any version), this is because the Microsoft security update from about a week ago created a weird problem.  Any attachment with an ! symbol or more than two .. in a row in its file name gets identified as a potential threat and gets blocked by Outlook (for your safety, of course).  

The fix is one of two things.

What I did was to uninstall the last Outlook 2007 security update from my computer.  Once I did that, everything was fine.

If you don't like option #1, then you could just name your game file without ! symbols.

Hope this helps until Microsoft resolves the problem. ( they are aware of it).

Here's a link to the bug report:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msof...bfa441ab3d

Thanks for the info. My brother just experienced that problem and I was trying to research the cause for him. This saved me a lot of time.

Dave

[Warhorse]

Windows Live Mail will check your Outlook mail, and not give any problems!