Comments on: Don’t attach HTML-files in Outlook

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[...] In Emil Stenström’s new blog post titled “Don’t attach HTML-files in Outlook“, he is writing about a problem he encountered after using Outlook to send his colleague an [...]

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[...] Don’t attach HTML-files in Outlook Just a short word of warning. I thought I’d mail the min-/max-width template to a colleague at work. So I fired up Outlook, attached the file and sent it. I thought that was it, Outlook couldn’t get something simple like that wrong, could it? Yes it could! Opening the file I found some pretty nasty […] [...]

By: J. Waatti

J. Waatti — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:11:12 +0000

I noticed the same thing with Outlook a while ago at work. I was supposed to solve a font problem on a HTML file and Outlook made my work a lot harder by messing the file up. I’m glad I was able to notice the changes that Outlook made to the file, otherwise I might have been stuck with the problem for a long time.

I’m also glad I don’t have to use MS products at home.

By: Ski

Ski — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:51:51 +0000

I often create a temporary Yahoo Group and upload files there. I then invite people who are interested in getting the file to download it from there. Gives you some level of anonymity, some security, and often works through most fire walls.

Regards

By: Bobby Ong Wannelind

Bobby Ong Wannelind — Tue, 29 May 2007 13:23:31 +0000

Great work MS Outlook!

By: Emil Stenström

Emil Stenström — Tue, 29 May 2007 06:24:05 +0000

@Marcus Ahnve: It happens when someone opens a file in Outlook, so what program I use does not matter much :(

By: Marcus Ahnve

Marcus Ahnve — Tue, 29 May 2007 05:51:31 +0000

Or you could just stop using Outlook.

Also, Outlook has been known to peek inside zip files. Using a more obscure compression like tar.bz2 might do the trick though.

By: Georges Jentgen

Georges Jentgen — Tue, 29 May 2007 04:47:07 +0000

…then Outlook changes the fileype to an executable and on the client side it gets blocked :)

There are a lot of things that make me hate Outlook and switch to Thunderbird.