Filter Email Attachments

[FCCC]

Hi All,

Is there a way to filter email attachments by selecting specific file extensions? Right now Outlook Express only filters all emails that has attachments. I only want some attachments be filtered.

Any idea will be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

 

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http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/answerstips/story/0,24330,2450945,00.html

that might help you get in the right spot. I think if you made a rule that said any email with the text. .exe .bin etc (the attachments you dont want). you could then tell it to delete flag, whatever you want.

 

[Spirit]

I use this to undo the prevention of Outlook 2000/XP/2k3 so perhaps a similar so try doing the reverse;

"If you're using Outlook 2002 these are stopped from being delivered by a reg setting of excluded files just delete the ones you don't want to receive:

.ade;.adp;.asx;.bas;.bat;.chm;.cmd;.com;.cpl;.crt;.exe;.hlp;.hta;.inf;.ins;.isp;.js;.jse;.lnk;.mb;.mdb;.mde;.msc;.msi;.msp;.mst;.pcd;.pif;.prf;.reg;.scf;.scr;.sct;.shb;.shs;.url;.vb;.vbe;.vbs;.wsc.sf;.wsh

Navigate to regisitry KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Security. Then just copy and paste it into the in
the Level1Remove (Create it if its not there)."

You will have to have a good search for the relevent reg key can't help with that unfortunately as I don't use OE.

Good luck,

Iain

 

[FCCC]

Thank you Ian, I will try the registry. I will post the result if it works.

 

[FCCC]

UPDATE: Apparantly there was no "Security" key on Outlook Express. I will keep searching.

 

[FCCC]

Hi Spirit: I installed Outlook 2003 (I don't have ver. 2002) and added the Level1Remove registry but it didn't work. Is there any more ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Spirit]

This is from MS Off 2k3 help;
By default, Microsoft Outlook blocks potentially unsafe attachment files (such as .bat, .exe, .vbs, and .js) that can contain viruses. You cannot see or access the attachments. Your Inbox will display the paper clip icon in the Attachment column to let you know that the message has an attachment, and you will see a list of the blocked attachment files in the InfoBar at the top of your message. If you try to open the attachment by right-clicking the item, View Attachments will not appear on the shortcut menu. If you need to use files, such as .exe files, that were sent to you from others, have the sender post the files to a network share or to a Web share that you can access.

Now, the MS website says to BLOCK attachments;

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837388&Product=off2003

Outlook 2003
Follow these steps, and then quit Registry Editor:
Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
Type Level1Add, and then press ENTER.
On the Edit menu, click Modify.
Type <file_name_extensions>, and then click OK.
Notefile_name_extensions is a list of the attachment file name extensions. Each attachment file name extension is separated by a semicolon. For example, type .zip; .gif if you want to block both .zip and .gif files from appearing in the e-mail message as an attachment.

So delete this completely if it exists and do the above with Level1Remove

It "should" work.

Iain

 

[FCCC]

Hi Iain,

Thanks for the post. The Level1Add key works.

I also found a free email spam blocker. It is called SpamPal and you can get it free from this URL:

http://www.spampal.org/download.html

This program works great.