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Old 17 April 2009, 07:43 AM
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Default Help is sending / receiving email " rar " file

Trying to send an email to a mates pc, the email I am sending contains a rar file which is showing as sent within my outlook express programe and as yet ( couple off days ) has still not been returned back even thou the other pc has not received it, this has happened before when attempting to send an email containing a similar type file to him.

bit confused why his pc will not allow him to receive an email containg such a file type ?? he is using Nod32 av, is not getting an alert to say that it is blocked so is there possibly a setting within outlook express that he has not set up correctly so as to receive such attachments ??

both off us are using xp.

any advice would be great.

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Old 17 April 2009, 08:44 AM
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Try a different compression method.
Old 17 April 2009, 08:49 AM
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Someone's spam or email filter is blocking it. Try sending a zip file instead.

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Old 17 April 2009, 11:13 AM
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It's pretty harsh filtering to bin the mail, usually, av products and filters will bin the attachment. I use nod but not for mail, does he have a quarantine folder somehwere where it's been sidelined?
Does he receive a text mail from you?
Old 17 April 2009, 03:37 PM
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Rename the file so the extension is .txt instead of .rar, then just rename it at the recipients end back to .rar
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I think some email can be filtered not to accept any type of attachment. Maybe his settings are like that by default.
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Cheers guys apreciatte the advice / tips will let you know how I get on.
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