> On Tuesday 07 August 2007, jdd wrote: >> This is not OT because it's about sending openoffice documents to >> outlook express users. >> >> OE is smart enough to prevent windows users to read openoffice >> documents... believe it or not. It refuses opening these documents >> saying thay are "unknown, probably viruses" :-(((. - they can even not >> save them on the disk. >> >> 1) it is very nice to OE to stop the users opening anything >> 2) but known origin odt documents should not be stopped >> >> So I have to instruct my readers to go in the OE options, unset the >> save protection, save, then reset the option.
If it is Outlook Express: menu Extra - options - tab security: check/uncheck "deny saving or opening attachements possibly containing a virus" or something in that order (I translate from a dutch version here). >> >> they understand this very easily... > > At least they can open them. Should one have to use Outlook Web Access for > Exchange, one would not be able to open "unsafe" attachments at all from > non-IE browser. There is no accessible option for "unsupported" browser > to turn this "feature" off. Either you need a Windows desktop somewhere > to access with IE or Outlook or similar, or you won't be opening > attachments in the webmail. MS Office attachments are never "unsafe", > though, so they are accessible even on non-IE browsers, no matter whom > they came from. > > It says it is blocking these possibly unsafe attachments blaah blaah... > sure. I would still like to be able to somehow open them if I wanted to. > > Regards, > Tero Pesonen > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- L. de Braal BraHa Systems NL - Terneuzen T +31 115 649333 F +31 115 649444 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
