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Attachment send problem in Outlook Express
Just got new Dell PC. Have found that when I try to send emails WITH attachments using Outlook Express it immediately puts them in sent mail - but does not send the email. Emails without attachments are sent fine. Emails with large attachments work fine. Set up Outlook 2003 on same machine - this sends any size of attachment fine.
O/S is Windows XP home edition. Using Norton Intenet security for virus protection etc. Using a Freeserve dialup account.
Seems to be an Outlook Express problem. Have thoroughly checked all OE settings. Have tried changing mail format to Plain Text (some references elsewhere that this can solve the problem - but it doesn't for me)
DGuess
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Posted May 13th, 2005 01:00
Do you happen to have email scanning turned on?
Turn it off and test it.
Email scanning provides no additional benefits as the base AV software will detect anything once it's opened. You do need to keep up to data AV signatures.
If you don't keep up to date, the scan would not detect anything anyway.
There are known problems when scanning is on such as timeouts or just failure to send.