[Gllug] [OT] Outlook - make plain text plain text.

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Sat Mar 22 14:20:07 UTC 2003


On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 12:28, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 10:57, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:24:31AM -0000, TSchutzerWeissmann wrote:
> > > Dave Fuggle suggests
> > > > Tools->Options and then the Mail Format tab. First drop down 
> > > > is message
> > > > format.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > It's polite to assume most people will have tried this!
> > > 
> > > The trouble is that some MS Exchange servers are configured to slap an html
> > > version onto messages that Outlook sends as plain text. The only way I know
> > > to get round this works on a message-by-message basis:
> > 
> > I'm not greatly bothered by e-mails that have an html component - for
> > your average message, if the sender isn't being silly with those bloody
> > message templates, it doesn't really matter.  What is annoying is
> > messages that are pure html with no text component.
> 
> On that subject, does anyone know a way to tell Mozilla or Evolution to
> display the plain text in preference to the html version where both are
> available?

Mozilla it is view - message bodies, text only.

Evolution seems to be limited to ensuring "only load images from people
in my address book."

Kind regards
Xander
> 
> Mike.
> 


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