Method 1: (one per email compose)

The prob­lem is the Out­look Express can’t see attach­ment in email which sent as “Rich Text For­mat” so the solu­tion is when you com­pose an email that you will be send­ing to recip­i­ent that using Out­look Express you need to send it as “plain text” and the fol­low­ing are the steps:

. Before you attach the file, click “For­mat Text” tab, then click on line “Plain Text”, switch back “Mes­sage” tab and “Attach File”

. Con­tinue with your email com­po­si­tion then send.

Method 2: (one time per email address)

. Open that spe­cific con­tact by dou­ble click­ing the item in your Con­tacts folder (Notes: if the con­tact is not already in your address books then add to your address book)

. Hover on the email address of the con­tact and a Address Card pop-up will become visible.

. On the right side of the con­tact card you’ll see a menu but­ton. Click on it and from the list choose; Out­look Prop­er­ties, Make sure that the “Inter­net for­mat” is set to “Send Plain Text Only”.

Please fol­low these steps:

1. Click the File tab.

(Note: If you are using Exchange for email then you need to make sure you click on Exchange account before you do this oth­er­wise you won’t see it.)

2. Click Auto­matic Replies.

3. Select Send auto­matic replies.

4. If you want, select the Only send dur­ing this time range check box to sched­ule when your out of office replies are active. If you don’t spec­ify a start and end time, auto-replies are sent until you select the Do not send auto­matic replies check box.

5. On the Inside My Orga­ni­za­tion tab, type the response that you want to send to team­mates or col­leagues while you are out of the office.

6. On the Out­side My Orga­ni­za­tion tab, select the Auto-reply to peo­ple out­side my orga­ni­za­tion check box, and then type the response that you want to send while you are out of the office. Select whether you want replies sent to My con­tacts only or to Any­one out­side my orga­ni­za­tion who sends you messages.

Note: If you are using UW Cam­pus email please see this link: http://www.washington.edu/itconnect/email/uwemail.html

Most of the spam email will try to make it look real or from the offi­cial author­ity like the IT depart­ment or the help desk or from the gov­ern­ment source but note the email in detail, most of not all, the email body show in text will reveal the link to some for­eign site such as Russ­ian or some sus­pi­cious web site.

This type of email can safely delete from your inbox.