Jungshik Shin wrote: > Philippe Verdy wrote: > > Jungshik Shin wrote: > > > http://www.dpo.uab.edu/technotes/technote0017.shtml > > I know that setting: > > > > [ ] Always Send to this recipient in Microsoft Exchange Rich Text > > Format (RTF) > > > > It is already unchecked by default for all recipients (I use > > plain-text when composing and sending) > > Your email still came with a completely useless 2.2kB > application/ms-tnef attachment.
I do think now that it's my anti-spam filter and not outlook itself, that does this transformation from plain-text to RTF, just to insert its banner (but also breaking UTF-8 encoded plain-texts inline body by forcing them to ISO-8859-1, replacing non-convertible characters by '?'). Again, I repeat that it's not Exchange (I have no exchange server), and not my ISP. So unless I find a better anti-spam filter that works without transforming texts, I have no better solution, as I really need an efficient Anti-spam filter that avoids me to even preview any HTML-composed message, which was why I had to abandon Outlook Express in favor or Outlook) I have tried Mozilla and Netscape mail, but they are too much resource intensive, and contain a lot of memory leaks that explode my system after long usage (I need a mail program that I can keep running permanently to purge my mailbox from the spams that it constantly receives). With Mozilla Mail and Netscape mail, the whole system becomes extremely slow or will finally freeze if I let them running for long times, and this is very frustrating. If only Microsoft wanted to correct its "preview" pane in Outlook Express so that it will not render HTML by default, but only the plain-text equivalent, it would be excellent for my security and privacy, and I could even use more simple anti-spam filters. The bad thing is that Outlook Express is not easily configurable to support anti-spam filters (the only way to do it is to install a local POP3 proxy that I need to configure to scan for external POP3 mailboxes, and then let Outlook Express look at emails received on this POP3 proxy. But all POP3 proxies that I have tested are even more bogous, badly written, and do not resist to long run periods due to lots of resource leaks, or simply dangerous to use due to lots of buffer overruns caused by badly written code, which would expose my PC to lots of external worm threats trying to exploit these security holes. My opinion for now is that it's preferable to have my main (inline) email bodies transmitted as plain-text, even if I can't send non ISO-8859-1 characters, and use instead file attachments (but thanks for pointing me that Outlook use its own attachment format which does not conform to the MIME "multipart" type, but uses its own "application/ms-tnef" format, initially created to support MAPI for communicating with Exchange servers, but that Outlook should not use silently by default if not communicating with MAPI servers (such as with standard SMTP servers). I feel very irritated that Microsoft performs this non-conforming job silently and call it a "Internet mail" service which is only designed to run correctly with Exchange servers. And I feel also irritated that Microsoft refuses now to make any further change in Outlook Express, promoting too much Office Outlook without saying to its clients that Outlook is not compatible and should not be used to communicate with people using non MAPI-compatible mailboxes and systems. Finally I feel very irritated that even those users using licend versions of Outlook 2000 can't benefit from a patch tat allows them to completely disable the generation of "application/ms-tnef" format for MAPI servers like Exchange, when they clearly don't need and don't want it simply because they will just use Outlook without any intermediate Exchange server or other MAPI servers. Why did I buy Office with that false-claiming Outlook program? Grrrrr.... (A frustrated M$ user). __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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