When I send myself a e-mail with an attachment I can’t open the attachment. OE doesn’t show the paperclip and when I open the e-mail there isn’t an attachment. The option in OE for not allowing to open attachments that can contain viruses is already disabled.
I believe Avast (4.7 home edition) is blocking the attachment because when I send it to an other account and open it with a application that isn’t being scanned by Avast I can open the attachment. I can also see in the properties of the e-mail that there is an attachment, because the size is large (3227 kb).
I hope someone can help me with this mysterious problem.
Are you getting any errors when trying to send this large attachment ?
Some ISPs have a size restriction for emails, so you may also need to check that out, if the other account was for a different domain.
Other than that I’m at a loss as to why it fails, but if it is failing the least I would expect is an error message, usually from OE.
Is there a Sent Items entry for that email and does it contain the attachment ?
If so that is an indication that the email was successfully sent, since it comes back to you, it was successfully received by the email server.
Yet when you download it from the receiving email server it no longer contains the attachment it may be being stripped out by that server. I assume that the size of that email only reflects the text element of the email ‘without’ an attachment ?
Your ISP probably has a 5 meg limit restriction for emails and Outlook Express does a send plus receive when send to yourself. Your total email size is actually over 6 meg (3227kb x 2) so your ISP is stripping the attachment from your received email.
avast does not block attachments. avast wll only remove an attachment after giving you the full blast of warnings alarms and popups to tell you it thinks an attachment is infected. Even then (after your agreement) it will place a warning in the message.
It does not remove attachments without warning … period.
Now, seriously, there is not a whole lot of value in sending emails from your account to the same account - who knows what goes in your email server when you do silly things like that.
Much better to concentrate on sending emails between two different accounts that you own and telling us what happens in the “each way send” between the two.
Actually that is how most ISP email is handled when IronPort Systems are used! The assumption is that a worm is initiating mass mailing from the customer’s computer so attachments are stripped. It is also used for spam control as well as size limitation.
Here is some info for you: http://www.ironport.com/technology/ironport_mail_flow_central.html