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someone sent me a .mdb attachment today and i couldn't open it in outlook. no amount of searching the options could change this behaviour. i searched online and found a few microsoft kb articles about it, and how to change the registry to add exemptions to the 'Level 1' list of file extensions, which outlook regards as unsafe. i did all the steps in the article but it still didn't work. then i found this GREAT outlook plug in which adds a tab to the outlook options and allows you to configure how outlook handles all the attachments.
http://www.slovaktech.com/attachmentoptions.htm
How on earth MS forgot about this is beyond me. they actually suggest that you ask the person who sent it to rename the file with a bogus extension and resend the attachment. surely it is sufficient to force users to save the file to disk and then open it themselves by choice. sheesh!
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