SUMMARY
In addition to sending text messages, Microsoft Outlook
2000 can send attached files with your e-mail. Including an attachment in
e-mail increases the file size of your message and can impact transmission
speed and create network bottlenecks.
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 98 (Bernd Kemmlers)
Features the ability to create, view, and extract Zip files. Also
offers compression levels.
MaX Compression (C2C Systems)
This add-in automatically compresses and decompresses attachments
in Outlook.
TurboZip (Pacific Gold Coast)
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.)
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)
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.
ZipOut (MicroEye, Inc.)
ZipOut automatically compresses attachments to Mail, Post,
Appointment, Meeting Request, Contact, Distribution List, Journal, and Task
items, as well as custom Outlook forms based on these message types. ZipOut
operates in both the Internet Only and Corporate/Workgroup modes of Outlook
2000.