Sandy,
That's the difference between your environment and ours. As a email
manager in a corporate setting, I can strip the email and get away with it.
We have rules stating no backgrounds or special formating within our
environment. The problem is users don't listen. The do as they please as
long as they don't get caught. I've blocked numerous "smiley central" like
sites just to piss them off and get them to stop using those types of
things. Any "additionals" from the internet can be blocked. It's when they
use "stationary" or other locally installed stuff on their pcs....I can't
strip it.
When we moved from MS ex (smtp/pop3 only) to imail, we lost some of the
functionality to stop certain items and the users realized it and took full
advantage of it. My job is full of days of firewall mods and security
issues.
The other reason stripping could be useful is users are not very savvy. The
use outlook ex & outlook with their preview window open. We've had times
when they've recieved an email which had embedded crap which auto opened
stuff. Plain text with attachments would reduce the spread of the
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sanford Whiteman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Doug Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 1:45 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] plain text only?
> > Yeah...thought so. I was hoping that there was something (3rd party)
> > that could strip it down like we had with exchange.
>
> The problem with "stripping it down" is that a user who thinks they've
> formatted a rich-text message, and whose client lets them do so, will
> have no way of knowing that the often mangled, and always different,
> plain-text version is the only one that's actually transmitted. I
> wouldn't advise trying to do any such transformation on the server
> side unless there's a known destination (such as a mailing list) that
> is not intended to receive rich text.
>
> --Sandy
>
>
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