Re: PROBLEMS WITH ATTACHING WORD DOCUMENTS TO EMAIL!!!
Shenan Stanley
> About a week ago, I was unable to attach any Word files to my
> emails, whether from my MSN Hotmail account, my Yahoo! account, or
> any other of my email accounts. For Hotmail, it would continue
> "attaching files" until the page went to a "The page cannot be
> displayed" page. For Yahoo! and the other email accounts, the
> "attaching files" would continue on and on, without any result. The
> files are not big, and there were no other windows open.
>
> HELP!!!
>
> Note:This is only occuring for my Word documents. Attaching
> pictures are fine.
Are all your email accounts accessed through the web?
In other words - do you not use an actual email client?
Have you tried a different Internet browser? Did you recently update to
IE7?
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vietgirl_ty
and Yahoo!.
No, I did not recently update to IE7.
Shenan Stanley
> Are all your email accounts accessed through the web?
> In other words - do you not use an actual email client?
>
> Have you tried a different Internet browser? Did you recently
> update to IE7?
vietgirl_ty wrote:
> Yes, I do use an actual email client, such as the ones I mentioned:
> Hotmail and Yahoo!.
>
> No, I did not recently update to IE7.
Those are not email clients.
Those are email servers.
They serve your email to you.
A client is like Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora, PegasusMail,
etc etc...
Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc are *not* clients - although some of them may
have a client you can install and use. A client runs on your local machine
and allows you to get email from a server. If you visit a web page to get
your email - you are not actually using a client - but allowing some
applications you are pulling down through your browser (or that is running
on their server) to display your email to you.
So again - do you actually load a client (Outlook, Outlook Express,
Thunderbird, etc) to get to your email or do you open a web browser
(Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc) and go to a web page and logon to
get your email?
Shenan Stanley
> About a week ago, I was unable to attach any Word files to my
> emails, whether from my MSN Hotmail account, my Yahoo! account, or
> any other of my email accounts. For Hotmail, it would continue
> "attaching files" until the page went to a "The page cannot be
> displayed" page. For Yahoo! and the other email accounts, the
> "attaching files" would continue on and on, without any result. The
> files are not big, and there were no other windows open.
>
> HELP!!!
>
> Note:This is only occuring for my Word documents. Attaching
> pictures are fine.
Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Are all your email accounts accessed through the web?
> In other words - do you not use an actual email client?
>
> Have you tried a different Internet browser? Did you recently
> update to IE7?
vietgirl_ty wrote:
> Yes, I do use an actual email client, such as the ones I mentioned:
> Hotmail and Yahoo!.
>
> No, I did not recently update to IE7.
Shenan Stanley wrote:
> Those are not email clients.
> Those are email servers.
> They serve your email to you.
> A client is like Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora,
> PegasusMail, etc etc...
>
> Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc are *not* clients - although some of
> them may have a client you can install and use. A client runs on
> your local machine and allows you to get email from a server. If
> you visit a web page to get your email - you are not actually using
> a client - but allowing some applications you are pulling down
> through your browser (or that is running on their server) to
> display your email to you.
>
> So again - do you actually load a client (Outlook, Outlook Express,
> Thunderbird, etc) to get to your email or do you open a web browser
> (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc) and go to a web page and
> logon to get your email?
vietgirl_ty wrote:
> Thank you for attempting to help me.
>
> I think I have solved my problem.
So, please share your solution - as these posts are archived and browsed
through by millions each day.
See your post here:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support/browse_frm/thread/7000f981899332ec/9b8236cbc72e7e3c?lnk=st&q=&rnum=1&hl=en#9b8236cbc72e7e3c
It would be good if others could share your success with the answer you
found.