Microsoft Outlook Attachment Reminder
Have you ever forgotten to add an attachment to an email although you mentioned that there would be an attachment in the email? It might lead to an embarrassing situation with business partners but also additional and delayed work. The reason for this is simple: you may eventually receive an email from the recipient asking about the whereabouts of the attachment. You then need to write a second email with the files attached which delays your work if you have been waiting for a response and probably also the work of your contact in the process.
Outlook Attachment Reminder is a software addin for the email client Microsoft Outlook which acts as a reminder. The addin will automatically scan the text in the email client for words like attachment or attached.
If those words are found in the email the addin will check for attachments and notify the user if none was found so that the attachment can be added before sending the email.
The Microsoft Outlook addin comes with the option to add words to the addin which will be used to check if the email should contain attachments. You can add words using the options window that the add-in makes available after installation.
You can also add filters that warn you if attachments cross a specified size threshold. The default threshold is set to 10 Megabytes which you can change in the options as well. It enables you furthermore to restrict attaching attachments, or to restrict attachments by file type so that files are blocked from being sent if their file extension is on the black list.
Note that the Outlook Attachment Reminder Suite is compatible with all recent versions of Microsoft's Outlook email program including the recently released 2013 version that shipped together with Office.
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You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!