Herb Martin wrote:
Can anyone confirm that this will always be the case when dragging
multiple
messages into a new one? And will this be so in both
outlook and outlook
express?
I can't confirm that it WILL always be true, but I believe
that it mostly
*should* always be true. I've known Outlook to send attached
"*.msg" files
instead of a properly encoded attachment. I'm not positive under the
conditions that this would occur. I don't think I've ever
seen OE do this,
but I suppose it probably could.
I think as long as you ignore improper attachments you should
be in pretty
good shape.
The current version of Outlook 2003 SP1, and likely
others follow (at least these rules:
If you select MULTIPLE messages and hit Forward then
the messages get properly (with full headers as received)
attached -- BUT if you select one message the message
gets 'edited' as the text of the outgoing message.
If you drag a message into a draft message it SEEMS
to get properly attached as above.
My method is to ALWAYS select multiple messages (even
when only one is desired) and then remove any 'extras'
that I do not wish to send.
A simple perl script (just a couple of lines) will split
the message(s) back into individual messages that can
be properly used for feeding Bayes or other classifiers.
gedoesn't outlook/exchange remove/rewrite some headers at reception
time, thus making it impossible to retriev the original message?
