Attachments gone awry

Recently I corrupted my XP system. I had to have some unbackedup data recovered from my hard drive and the system restored. I reinstalled all my applications and resumed playing an e-mail chess game via Webmail. Previously, when I or my opponent clicked Open to open an attachment, we would be prompted to save or open the attachment. Now the attachment opens without prompting and reveals a move list without the chessboard graphic. This is not what we want -- we want to save the attachment and later open the file with a special chess application.

The problem is not limited to chessplaying. I've sent test e-mail to myself with simple text file attachments. They are displayed inline, without even a prompt to open or save. Somewhere a setting has redirected how my e-mail attachments are handled. It's not in the Webmail settings, it's in XP. Does anyone know where this setting is so that I can change it?

 

I don't have XP but wouldn't that be in security settings??



Savvy

 

Thanks, Savvy, but the problem does not appear to be security- related. My wife has a machine that runs Windows 98. It handles attachments the way I like, yet its Security settings (under Internet Options) are identical to the settings on my XP machine.

 

I meant the mail security... but i may be totally off base

 

Thanks again, SavvyLady. I use Onebox, a brand of Webmail. No blocking or filtering is active on the e-mail I receive, and no other security options are available. It's a mystery.

 

I went to bed thinking about this one & for the life of me can not recall how you change that setting......
Maybe someone else can!


Savvy

 

Hi Ken,

Are you sure there's not some setting in your onebox account, under options or user preferences that needs to be reset?

In any event, I think I'll move this to the email/internet forum where you may get some better responses.