>>" end-user training on "how to use your corporate email account"
Ha, ha, ha!! That's a good one!!!! Tell me another!
Greg Knowles
(203) 866-5958
(203) 984-5920 (Cell)
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Mattias <
Date: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:29 am
Subject: Re: [
EDI-L] Scanned docs inside of EDI transmissions
> > ... involves sending binary email attachments (executables and
> > compiled tables) and, because of the increasingly aggressive mail
> > scanning carried out by many companies, I now as a matter of course
> > place the files on a webserver and send only the URL ...,
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> Tell me about it.
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> I've had it just about up to here with "please send me <X> as an
> email attachment" only to get ..
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> A) a "mail rejected because you can't send that attachment" note
> from the recipient's server
> B A phone call the next day as asking why I didn't send it, the
> server NOT having sent me such a note.
> C) Asking recipient to check his corporate "spam trap" and when
> finding the mail only to be a told "no way" he/she can release it
> from the trap so could I please
rename the attachments with
> different file extensions and send again..
> D) Having done <C>, getting another phone call during which I
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learn the 'spam trap' is "smart" (ha-ha-ha!) enough to see right past
> file extensions into the "deadly" content I have sent.... the
> same "deadly" content I was ASKED to send because the customer needs
> it.
>
> I guess end-user training on "how to use your corporate email
> account" doesn't include a chapter on "our spam traps" or "prohibited
> attachments (inbound)."
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> MCM
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