In the wee hour of 04:32 PM 4/24/01 -0400, Linda Johnson bequeathed such
tales as these:
><Are my instructions on how Outlook 2000 should be used to send plain text
>incorrect?>>
>
>Nope, Gerry....they are right on the money......you do mention that the
>setting must be changed manually in the individual mail to override the
>default....and in Outlook's case, the "default" is ALWAYS the format
>of the
>sent message you are replying to....definitely one of Outlook's big
>shortcomings, IMO
>
>but, we are still waiting to hear if this person is REPLYING or initiating a
>new mail when he gets the HTML setting....if he has plain text set as his
>default and is getting HTML in new messages, then there is definitely
>something messed up in his install of Outlook.....if he is replying to HTML
>mail and getting HTML, then Outlook is working as designed.....crappy
>design, I admit, but that's the way Outlook works
>
>I have Outlook setup as plain text and I PURPOSELY created a signature that
>shows in a funky font when in HTML so I will be reminded to change it to
>plain text before I hit send when replying....otherwise my mail goes out in
>HTML if I forget
>
The problem might have to do with his server, Exchange 5.5 which defaults
to HTML to start. So when he sends, and all his settings are to plain text
in Outlook 2k, the message bounces due to there being two content lines in
the header, one for html and one for plain text. So for now we're waiting
as some bozo is spamming their server today too. Thanks for the input people.
Peter Kaulback
I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
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