How can I send someone an attachment, if it's blocked by their copy of Outlook?

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A good way to send documents that are rejected by email is to use a free service such as dropload.com or sendthisfile.com

I applied to a job listing on Monster using attachments, which was the prefered way. I got an email back asking me to resend in word format. I have Windows XP does this have anything to do with them not being able to open the file? I don't understand what they want me to do. I have this on a disk and also saved to my documents. Any suggestions?

They're asking you to use Microsoft Word to create the document. Alternately you can use another word processor, and save the document in Microsoft Word format.

Could you please tell me if there is any way that I can tell if someone has me blocked on their IM. If so could you please let me know.

Not that I'm aware of.

I learnt some very useful tips from this website, though I have a problem. I've been trying to send an email with a PDF file attached to it and I get a message that says that the message content is too large for the recipient. What does this mean and how can I solve this problem in order to send my email? I am using Microsoft Outlook and running Windows XP on my computer. Help!!!

Many email servers will not accept email over a certain size. There's not neccessarily anything you can do about that if it's happening at your recipient's side. At best, you can attempt to make your document smaller, or get it to them some other way - perhaps transferring in an IM conversation, or uploading it to a web site that they can then download from.

I've got this problem in reverse. OE displays'Removed access to the following unsafe attachment in your mail (followed by attachment name). I can't open ANY attacment to ANY Email. I'm running on WINXP(home)

Oftentimes when I send an attachment with Outlook, the recipient says that they didn't receive it, even though my "sent" file shows that I did attach it. If I send them the same attachment in Outlook Express, everything is fine.

I know that Outlook automatically attaches its little .dat file which non-Outlook users see (and question). Does that have anything to do with it? I have not asked the "non-recipients" what email client they were using 'cuz I shouldn't have to.

I really like the calendar feature of Outlook, but otherwise find the rest of it frustrating compared to OE...

Thanks!

David

Sounds like you're running an older version of Outlook if there are winmail.dat attachments. Also implies those emails are "Rich Text". I would use Plain Text formatting when sending the mail. (Or, perhaps HTML.)

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