Absolute link to PDF - Executable File?

Question

We have a mass emailing tool (.net based) that we developed in house. html editor. and sends via html and text formats.

within the body we have an absolute URL path to a PDF on our server. some of our subscribers are stating that when they click on the link they get a message box that the file is an executable file and whether they should run it or not...

why would that happen... and only to a certain group?

Answer 1

What did they open the email with, a browser (which? version?), or an email client?

I'm thinking that the issue could easily boil down to some IE settings.

Answer 2

Is your path a local path? Like:

\\Server\pdf\example.pdf

Maybe this is triggering the executable warning?

Answer 3

Hi, To resolve your problem, you need to indicate MIME type of content. In this case: application/pdf