Notification activity - blank file as attachment

dspxlearn · Post by **dspxlearn** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:30 am

Hi,

I was using Notification activity in job sequencer to e-mail a group with a CSV file attachment and some subject in the e-mail.
Every thing was working fine. But, i am getting an additional blank text file with 242Bytes attached to the e-mail.
It is named as ATT8321619.txt. I did a search on the forum,but no luck.
Can anyone tell me what this file doing as a e-mail attachment?

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:03 am

This is something that Microsoft Outlook does; I remember finding a MS page on how to change that behaviour a while back.

dspxlearn · Post by **dspxlearn** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:55 am

ArndW,

Can you please post the page which explains how to avoid these kind of attachments here please...

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:24 am

I never could find an answer as to exactly why this happens, but will be the first to admit I didn't really look all that hard.

I've started including a note in the email to tell them to ignore any goofy attachment that may come along for the ride.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:44 am

dspxlearn - my Google here always goes to German (not English) pages so I can't help you much. You can try to search for "outlook att attachment" and you'll get a lot of hits - hopefully one of the first ones will contain the answer. If you do get a definitive answer please do post it.

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:48 am

I saw one post recommending changing the Outlook default Internet message to "both" (that would be RTF and HTML) and that solved the problem. I think that is what I did as well.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:14 pm

ArndW wrote:dspxlearn - my Google here always goes to German (not English) pages so I can't help you much. You can try to search for "outlook att attachment" and you'll get a lot of hits - hopefully one of the first ones will contain the answer. If you do get a definitive answer please do post it.

There's a Monty Python song that goes "if you want people to like you learn German".