Can't open Mail attachments in Communicator

Mark J. Haythornthwaite

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Apr 3, 2002, 2:24:34 PM4/3/02

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I want to change my action preferences for when I click on ZIP files
attached to incoming emails.

Messenger will only let me save to disk. I want to open the file with
WinZip.

Sometime in the past I obviously had that window pop up that asks if you
want to open or to save, with the check box that says "Don't ask me
again". In a daze, I must have said Save- Don't ask me again.

How do I get the choice back?

I have already gone through Edit|Preferences|Navigator|Applications|Zip
Files|Edit, told it to Ask how it is to be handled. It achieved nothing,
every time I click on a zip file attached to an email I only get the
"Save to" dialog box. I am using Communicator 4.79.

Any other ideas?

Mark

Christopher Jahn

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Apr 3, 2002, 10:42:50 PM4/3/02

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And it came to pass that Mark J. Haythornthwaite wrote:

> I want to change my action preferences for when I click on
> ZIP files attached to incoming emails.
>
> Messenger will only let me save to disk. I want to open the
> file with WinZip.

Not an option. You must download the file to run it, as it is
encoded in the message when you get it. Downloading it
unencodes it, turning it back into a ZIP file.

This also gives your AV a chance to scan it.

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Thomas

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Apr 30, 2002, 10:26:54 AM4/30/02

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Christopher Jahn <xj...@netscape.net> wrote in message news:<Xns91E5E7E...@attbi.com>...

> And it came to pass that Mark J. Haythornthwaite wrote:
>
> > I want to change my action preferences for when I click on
> > ZIP files attached to incoming emails.
> >
> > Messenger will only let me save to disk. I want to open the
> > file with WinZip.
>
> Not an option. You must download the file to run it, as it is
> encoded in the message when you get it. Downloading it
> unencodes it, turning it back into a ZIP file.
>
> This also gives your AV a chance to scan it.

You could try Edit > Preferences > Navigator > Application > pick th
ZIP MIME type from the list > Edit > Check or uncheck the tick box
"automatically save to disk"

Thomas

James Brennan

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May 31, 2002, 5:45:29 PM5/31/02

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"Mark J. Haythornthwaite" wrote:

Sounds like you're using Norton Antivirus with e-mail protection enabled.
If this is so, then that's what's doing it & you need to look at the file
associations labeled "Download file". These are ones Norton puts in there.
Find the one for zip files (or any other you want to change as well) and
edit that one the same way you described.
If you're not using Norton, then I don't have a clue, but at least I tried!
-JPB

James Brennan

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Aug 29, 2002, 7:24:11 PM8/29/02

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Norton doesn't seem to care about a lot of thing, I'm learning to my dismay.

terra wrote:

> I've heard about Norton wiping out all email in the Inbox when a Netscape user tells
> it to delete a virus. Norton doesn't seem to care that Netscape stores all that email
> together in one file.

James Brennan

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Aug 29, 2002, 7:31:50 PM8/29/02

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James Brennan wrote:

Sorry I top posted. I forget sometimes. It's hell getting old....