I sent an attachment home from college this afteroon, when i got home i went into the email and it said
Hotmail has permanently blocked the following potentially unsafe attachment(s): TechnicalSupportForm.mdb (1 MB)
Its a database project which i must have tonight. Im totaly totaly p***ed off with Microsoft after this. Theyve gone over the top on this one.
Is there an email addy to some one in hotmail where i can complain or try and get my attachment. I cant find one anywhere. Thanks in advance
go back to school first and see if there are still teachers there are get a copy of floppy disk and sort out the hotmail problem later. They will probaly take a few days to reply anyway
Twigman
you could resend it - but as a zip file - that will definitely get through.
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can you forward it to a different e-mail account? i've had to do that with files which hotmail/ie tries to open and fails and doesnt allow you to download the file to your computer... might work?
mark
edit: yup that works, just tried it myself, sent myself a database file, then forwarded it to a non-hotmail account and it worked fine.. drop me a pm if you want to forward your e-mail to me and i can put it on my server for you to get without using hotmail if you want
That normally works for me. Or rename it as something like .gif and get someone at the far end to rename it back.Originally posted by www.josh.org.uk
you could resend it - but as a zip file - that will definitely get through.
Dunno why you're annoyed at MS for this. Its a pretty well known "feature". Also your getting the level of service you've paid for really
too late to go back to college to send home again, but he'll know for next timeI sent an attachment home from college this afteroon
Its a database project which i must have tonight. Im totaly totaly p***ed off with Microsoft after this. Theyve gone over the top on this one.
mark
Originally posted by sparky191
That normally works for me. Or rename it as something like .gif and get someone at the far end to rename it back.
Dunno why you're annoyed at MS for this. Its a pretty well known "feature". Also your getting the level of service you've paid for really
Ive never had an attachment blocked so its not a well known feature to me. Im annoyed because i send a completely harmless file home expecting to pick it up and the thing gets blocked. Thats what im annoyed at. Thanks for your suggestions any ways
Not quite sure what they think they will achieve by blocking .mdb files as the only thing I can think of them used for is MS Access Databases. Quite silly on the part of Hotmail to be honest.
On another note, you can do alot better than Hotmail...
Yup.
Notso-Hot-mail decided to block my freshly emailed A/S Level Computer Science coursework project from college because it might "be dangerous".
Won't be able to do ANY of my work now until I January next year (college has finished for the christmas holidays now)
Stupid.
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I think the issue is when stupid people open attachments they shouldn't (and the issue in Office files is of course - macros, but we won't get into that.)
To get around problems like this, your OS should, upon installation, make you take a computer aptitude test, to work out of you're an idiot or not.
That way, it knows whether to give you all the friendly information and crap, and block things when users are too stupid to know what's a virus and what isn't.
Anyone with me?
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It blocks attachments. You can put a virus in a MS Access db.Originally posted by Enverex
Not quite sure what they think they will achieve by blocking .mdb files as the only thing I can think of them used for is MS Access Databases. Quite silly on the part of Hotmail to be honest.
On another note, you can do alot better than Hotmail...
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