| This article is being maintained as archived information. WinZip Courier is the successor to WinZip E-Mail Companion. WinZip E-Mail Companion can still be downloaded and much of what it will do is explained in its help file. |
WinZip E-Mail Companion is an easy-to-use, time saving tool for zipping files you have attached to Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or Windows Mail e-mail messages. Recipients of your e-mail messages do not need WinZip E-Mail Companion to receive
e-mail attachments that have been compressed by WinZip E-Mail Companion.
However, whether your Zip file e-mail attachments are created with WinZip or WinZip E-Mail Companion, the person receiving them must have WinZip or another Zip file utility in order to extract and open the files contained in the zipped attachments. In fact, if you receive attachments that have been zipped, you also will need a Zip file utility such as WinZip to open them and extract their contents.
Please also consider the following:
- If you encrypt the data in your Zip files using AES encryption, the recipient must have a Zip file utility that supports AES encryption, such as WinZip 9.0 or later
- If you use best compression with WinZip E-Mail Companion, the receiver must have a Zip file utility compatible with all of the compression methods available in WinZip 11 or later
- If you use best compression with WinZip, the receiver must have a Zip file utility compatible with all of the compression methods available in WinZip 12 or later
If you have any questions about this information please e-mail Technical Support.
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