Dr. Mac Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Hello folksThis is not one of those life and death situations, but it is still extremely frustrating! Can't find any answers on the Microsoft support sites.I have a freind who has never used Outlook Express before on her PC. She has always used Yahoo webmail.Well, thew other day I showed her how to use O.E. I configured her e-mail accout, username, password etc in OE (version 6, from IE 6 SP1) and it wroks a treat. In now time she was composing and sending e-mails and downloading them.BUT ... all the e-mails downloaded show that little paper-clip icon AS IF they ALL had an attachment! Which they do NOT.So, the story is those few e-mails that DO have an attachment show the little papart-clip sign correctly. BUt all the other mails that do NOT arrive with an attachment ALSO dispaly the paper-clip AS IF they has an attachement (which they do NOT)Has anybody every heard of this before?Any suggestions ... PLEASE!Thanks folks.Dr. Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_guy Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Is she using AVG for her antivirus? If so, then AVG adds an attachment saying if the email is clean, or what viruses were detected. If not, then I have no idea.the_guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charles__ Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 You might go to options,security and see if there is a check mark next to (do not allow attachment to be saved or open if they could contain a virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Mac Posted October 10, 2006 Author Share Posted October 10, 2006 Thank you very much guys.Yes ... she IS using AVG (but so am I and I don't get that) But I will still check on the AVG settings ... I know there is a setting to CHECK incoming mail AND also to certify it. Maybe if that is checked, it should be unchecked.Also, I'll go check those security setting as well - thanks for the suggestion.The problem is that although all those papr-clip thingies appear in the top panel of Outlook Express, the mails do NOT have ANY attachemnts attached to them at all.Dr. Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda43 Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Thank you very much guys.Yes ... she IS using AVG (but so am I and I don't get that) But I will still check on the AVG settings ... I know there is a setting to CHECK incoming mail AND also to certify it. Maybe if that is checked, it should be unchecked.Also, I'll go check those security setting as well - thanks for the suggestion.The problem is that although all those papr-clip thingies appear in the top panel of Outlook Express, the mails do NOT have ANY attachemnts attached to them at all.Dr. MacYeah, and besides that, O.E. will put a paper clip on any HtML eMail.Don't worry about it....OK? It really ain't no big deal. Just one of life's little quirks.Cheers!Andromeda43 B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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