Losing part of filename when forwarding from Outlook

[AleisterCrowley]

I've got a lot of emails saved for audit purposes
I save them with an additional case number in the name. As an example;

email header is : Re:Rockall Development Corporation offer
I save this as C00276a_Re:Rockall Development Corporation offer
If there are several emails for one case the letter gets changed, so C00276b,C00276c etc
They are all sitting there happily in the relevant folder with the full name as above, as .msg files.

BUT - if I try to attach a group of them to an email to forward they revert back to the original names without case ID

If I open a new email and insert file it just reverts to short name
If I go to the files in the directory and right click 'send to> email recipient' I get the short name file attached but the text has the new long name thus;

Your message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:

C00276a_Re:Rockall Development Corporation offer

Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled.

Any idea why, and how to get round this?
It's particularly annoying if there are multiple emails, perhaps replies from different people , as the files often have the same subject name eg the attachments may be four files all named "Re:Rockall Development Corporation offer " which are different responses and are stored in my files as 'C00276a_Re:Rockall Development Corporation offer', 'C00276b_Re:Rockall Development Corporation offer' etc etc


Thanks

AC

[AllYourBase]

Outlook seems to treat attachments differently when they are Outlook emails. Even if you change the file extension it still knows they're emails when you attach them. Is putting them in a single zip file an option?

[AllYourBase]

Some other solutions here https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/304714-msg-files-rename-in-a-folder-then-reverts-once-attached-in-e-mail

I know this is old, but I think I found a solution (Outlook 2010):

Current scenario:

Copy email to folder in Windows (e.g., Blah_Subject.msg)
Rename *.msg file in Windows Explorer. (e.g., Blah_Subject.msg renamed to Contract.msg)
Drag and drop *.msg to new email as an attachment
*.msg defaults back to subject (e.g., it shows up as attachment Blah_Subject.msg, instead of Contract.msg

What seems to work:

Copy email to folder in Windows (e.g., Blah_Subject.msg)
Rename *.msg file in Windows Explorer. (e.g., Blah_Subject.msg renamed to Contract.msg)
Open the renamed file (e.g., double-click to open renamed file called Contract.msg)
Drag and drop *.msg to new email as an attachment
*.msg should show up as renamed, instead of defaulting to subject line (e.g., it shows up as attachment Contract.msg, instead of Blah_Subject.msg)

[ReformedCharacter]

Suggestion here:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/ ... -in-e-mail

Copy email to folder in Windows (e.g. Re:Rockall Development Corporation offer)
Rename *.msg file in Windows Explorer. (e.g.C00276a_Re:Rockall Development Corporation offer)
Open the renamed file
Drag and drop renamed file to new email as an attachment
*.msg should show up as renamed

The trick apparently, is to drag and drop whilst it is open.

HTH

RC

[AleisterCrowley]

Many thanks all, some stuff to try there. I did wonder about zipping the messages -might be an idea to try that first rather than open/drag/drop 50+ emails!