Win 7 and Outlook 03 issue

[Lu Powell]

My brother is running Win 7 on 32 bit Home Premium on a HP laptop, using
Outlook 03 for email. Intermittently, he will get email messages that
display the entire message as HTML source (headers and all formatting info).
What should he be checking for?

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

My brother is running Win 7 on 32 bit Home Premium on a HP laptop, using
Outlook 03 for email. Intermittently, he will get email messages that
display the entire message as HTML source (headers and all formatting info).
What should he be checking for?

1. Does some html e-mail look like a web page?

2. Is it likely to happen to any user, even some whose e-mail looks OK
sometimes?

3. Are there per-sender settings on how to display e-mail?

4. Is his connection flaky?

5. Are the e-mails themselves well-formed?

 

[relic]

My brother is running Win 7 on 32 bit Home Premium on a HP laptop, using
Outlook 03 for email. Intermittently, he will get email messages that
display the entire message as HTML source (headers and all formatting
info). What should he be checking for?

Are they replies to an email he sent? Maybe someone is trying to encourage
him to not send them HTML email by sending all his HTML crap back to him as
normal text.

 

[Char Jackson]

Are they replies to an email he sent? Maybe someone is trying to encourage
him to not send them HTML email by sending all his HTML crap back to him as
normal text.

That sounds like something I would do. ;-)

 

[relic]

That sounds like something I would do. ;-)

That's why I seized on the idea... "me too"

 

[Lu Powell]

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message

My brother is running Win 7 on 32 bit Home Premium on a HP laptop, using
Outlook 03 for email. Intermittently, he will get email messages that
display the entire message as HTML source (headers and all formatting
info).
What should he be checking for?

1. Does some html e-mail look like a web page?

2. Is it likely to happen to any user, even some whose e-mail looks OK
sometimes?

3. Are there per-sender settings on how to display e-mail?

4. Is his connection flaky?

5. Are the e-mails themselves well-formed?

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Replying in order:

1. Sometimes formatted properly in HTML.

2. Yes.

3. Yes, and they seem to be okay in Outlook.

4. He is using his neighbors WI-FI witrh a booster (with permission of the
neighbor), and it is flaky at times.

5. when not displaying as HTML source, they are ok.

Thanks.

 

[Lu Powell]

"relic" wrote in message

My brother is running Win 7 on 32 bit Home Premium on a HP laptop, using
Outlook 03 for email. Intermittently, he will get email messages that
display the entire message as HTML source (headers and all formatting
info). What should he be checking for?

Are they replies to an email he sent? Maybe someone is trying to encourage
him to not send them HTML email by sending all his HTML crap back to him as
normal text.


The ones I saw were forwarded, not replies.

 

[Roy Smith]

The ones I saw were forwarded, not replies.

And here we go again with someone else using the broken version of
Windows Live Mail in the newsgroup. I've corrected the quoting above so
that it follows the accepted standards for quoted text, but take a look
at your message and you'll see that WLM screws it up. Below is the same
text unedited:

"relic" wrote in message



Are they replies to an email he sent? Maybe someone is trying to encourage
him to not send them HTML email by sending all his HTML crap back to him as
normal text.


The ones I saw were forwarded, not replies.

So you see with WLM's quoting broken as it is, it makes it hard to tell
who wrote what. It would be even harder after a couple of other's who
use WLM 2011 who reply to each other...


--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional
Postbox 2.1.0
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:21:24 AM

 

[Peter Foldes]

My brother is running Win 7 on 32 bit Home Premium on a HP laptop, using Outlook
03 for email. Intermittently, he will get email messages that display the entire
message as HTML source (headers and all formatting info). What should he be
checking for?

Lu Powel

This is a normal occurrence with OL 03 and 10 when in the Tools\Options\Read section
it is not set to Read all incoming Messages in Plain Text. When this is not set
correctly the people that use HTML and Rich Text in OL and sending it and if at the
receiving end is not set up as same to read in HTML or Rich Text the result will be
as you posted

BTW: This issue has nothing to do with the Windows 7 OS
--
Peter
Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message



1. Does some html e-mail look like a web page?

2. Is it likely to happen to any user, even some whose e-mail looks OK
sometimes?

3. Are there per-sender settings on how to display e-mail?

4. Is his connection flaky?

5. Are the e-mails themselves well-formed?

You really should use a proper newsreader.

Windows Live mail does not quote properly, and also, you put your reply
below the sig so that it gets suppressed.

I'll go back and see if I can salvage the info from your post.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message



1. Does some html e-mail look like a web page?

2. Is it likely to happen to any user, even some whose e-mail looks OK
sometimes?

3. Are there per-sender settings on how to display e-mail?

4. Is his connection flaky?

5. Are the e-mails themselves well-formed?

Adding to my last criticism

If you are going to answer question without quoting them, at *least*
interleave your answers with the questions.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message



1. Does some html e-mail look like a web page?

2. Is it likely to happen to any user, even some whose e-mail looks OK
sometimes?

3. Are there per-sender settings on how to display e-mail?

4. Is his connection flaky?

5. Are the e-mails themselves well-formed?

From your answer to 4, that the connection is flaky sometimes, I am
guessing that on occasion some of the HTML is lost, so the mail reader
just displays it as text, since it's not legal (AKA well-formed) HTML.

E-mails have no format, they're just straight text.

 

[Lu Powell]

Thanks for the rather gruff feedback. What reader do you recommend for news
groups?


"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message



1. Does some html e-mail look like a web page?

2. Is it likely to happen to any user, even some whose e-mail looks OK
sometimes?

3. Are there per-sender settings on how to display e-mail?

4. Is his connection flaky?

5. Are the e-mails themselves well-formed?

You really should use a proper newsreader.

Windows Live mail does not quote properly, and also, you put your reply
below the sig so that it gets suppressed.

I'll go back and see if I can salvage the info from your post.

 

[relic]

Thanks for the rather gruff feedback. What reader do you recommend for
news groups?

You can use WLM, just not version 15 (WLM 2011). Google for WLM version 14;
uninstall the WLM you have on your machine and then install version 14.

 

[Roy Smith]

Thanks for the rather gruff feedback. What reader do you recommend for
news groups?

There are several to choose from, and not knowing your comfort level
with computers it would be hard to specifically recommend one program.
My best recommendation is to download several of them and try them out
and find out which one suits your needs. You can get a list of them by
going to Google ans searching for newsreader software.


--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional
Postbox 2.1.0
Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:29:41 PM

 

[Lu Powell]

Thanks. I will.

G'day.


"Roy Smith" wrote in message

Thanks for the rather gruff feedback. What reader do you recommend for
news groups?

There are several to choose from, and not knowing your comfort level
with computers it would be hard to specifically recommend one program.
My best recommendation is to download several of them and try them out
and find out which one suits your needs. You can get a list of them by
going to Google ans searching for newsreader software.


--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional
Postbox 2.1.0
Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:29:41 PM

 

[croy]

Thanks for the rather gruff feedback. What reader do you recommend for news
groups?

I have used Forté's Agent for about 15 years, and continue
to like it. It's not free, but the price is not steep,
either. But I can't compare, becuase I have used no other.

Many folks like a reader called Gravity.

There's another called 40Tude, or something like that.

There's probably a dozen others who's names I can't remember
at the moment.

Some readers are better at text-centric newsgroups, while
some are better at binary-centric (movies, graphics,
applications) groups.

Whichever you choose, if you stick with it and get used to
it, you'll never look back--and you'll dislike web-forums on
a much grander scale.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

There's another called 40Tude, or something like that.

40Tude Dialog

I use it because it works adequately for me, and some others I've tried
annoy me

 

[XS11E]

Thanks. I will.

And please stop top posting. Thank you.

 

[yousillytwit]

You really should use a proper newsreader.

Windows Live mail does not quote properly, and also, you put your reply
below the sig so that it gets suppressed.

I'll go back and see if I can salvage the info from your post.