PRB: Jot+ Notefile Attachments in Outlook Express

If you send a Jot+ Notes notefile via e-mail to another user, and they use Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express as their e-mail client, they may not be able to access the attached notefile. The most likely reason for this is Microsoft's rather heavy-handed approach to stopping potentially harmful e-mail attachments.

One of our users (Andre B) has provided a relatively simple work-around to gain access to those blocked attachments:

Found a solution to the Outlook Express problem of greyed out attachments:

Go to Tools | Options | Security
Uncheck "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus".
When you are finished with those expected attachments, you may wish to turn the feature back on for safeguarding other incoming mail.

Snazzy or what. I successfully tried it out with the jot files.

Outlook Express has a setting that automatically disables access to certain kinds of files that may potentially harbour infected or malicious attachments. You can turn the feature on and off.

Other e-mail packages may have similar restrictions which you can bypass in a similar fashion.

An alternative method to ZIP the notefile first and attach the .zip file to the message instead of the .jot file.

Play Safe!

Jot+ Notes notefiles cannot harm your system (they do not contain scripts or other code), but in general you should never open any attachment from an unknown source, and even attachments from known sources should be virus-checked prior to opening.