a curse on Microsoft Outlook

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Gordon, Seth wrote:

> By the way, I don't know why my messages to discuss at blu end up in HTML.  I'm
> writing this message in Outlook (I finally switched to Outlook a couple of
> weeks ago, after Netscape Messenger hanged with extreme prejudice), and I
> have "Plain Text" checked off under the "Format" menu.  When I look at my
> messages to discuss at blu in my "Sent Items" folder, they're in plain text.

Your messages are being sent in both plain text and HTML. Reading that one
in Pine 4.10 made that obvious; Pine displays that there are two parts,
and starts by showing the text part. Most HTML user agents will just
quietly display the HTML part of such a message. Non-MIME-aware user
agents will show the MIME header, the text part, more MIME header, and
then the HTML source code.

I don't know how to get Outlook (or Outlook Express, for that matter -
which are you actually using?) to stop doing that.


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