OL97: Attachments Are Not Compressed by Outlook

ID: Q184126

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Outlook 97

SYMPTOMS

In addition to sending text messages, Microsoft Outlook can send attached files with your e-mail. Including an attachment in an e-mail message increases the file size of your message, and can impact transmission speed and create network bottlenecks.

WORKAROUND

One way to decrease this negative impact is file compression. However, due to mail standards, Outlook does not compress file attachments.

The following third-party products that perform file compression are readily available.

BKZip 97 (Bernd Kemmlers)

http://bks.simplenet.com/

Features the ability to create, view, and extract Zip files. Also uses a slider bar control to determine the amount of compression used.

MaX Compression (C2C Systems)

http://www.c2c.com/products/maxcomp.htm

This add-in automatically compresses and decompresses attachments in Outlook.

TurboZip (Pacific Gold Coast)

http://www.turbozip.com

You can work with files within archives and e-mails without unzipping or decoding. Also offers built-in ActiveX control for WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) viewing of Office 97 documents and spreadsheets.

WinZip (Niko Mak Computing, Inc.)

http://www.winzip.com

WinZip features built-in support for popular Internet file formats, including TAR, gzip, Unix compress, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs.

ZipMagic (Mijenix Corporation)

http://www.mijenix.com/zipmagic.htm

Shows Zip files as folders so you can view the contents without extracting the files. Supports the universal ZIP format, as well as ARJ, LHA/LZH, Z, GZIP, TAR, TAZ, TGZ, CAB, and ZOO. It also can open and decode BinHex, UUEncode, XXEncode, and MIME.

MORE INFORMATION

The third-party contact information included in this article is provided to help you find the technical support you need. This contact information is subject to change without notice. Microsoft in no way guarantees the accuracy of this third-party contact information.

For information about how to contact these companies, query in the Knowledge Base for one of the following articles:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q65416
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

   ARTICLE-ID: Q60781
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

   ARTICLE-ID: Q60782
   TITLE     : Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

The third-party products discussed here are manufactured by vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability.

Additional query words: big huge large slow

Keywords          : kb3rdparty kbdta MsgSend GnlFilem 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: February 12, 1999