From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 19:10:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B94916A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:10:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp3.pacifier.net (smtp3.pacifier.net [64.255.237.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138C243D4C for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:10:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from charles@coppersoftware.com) Received: from chuckop1 (66.89.130.110.ptr.us.xo.net [66.89.130.110]) by smtp3.pacifier.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 783D86E70D; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <001101c48620$75cb4df0$6c01a8c0@zettasystems.com> From: "Charles Oppermann" To: References: <20040819134840.GA3104@online.fr><20040819153936.84A2632736@smtp2.pacifier.net> <20040819162522.GD15230@seven.alameda.net> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:12:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 cc: 'Rahul Siddharthan' cc: 'David Kelly' cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: OT: Outlook message formats X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:10:06 -0000 > An option Outlook loves to ignore, just like it loves to ignore to use > ASCII only. I'm not aware that Outlook will ignore the settings that control how original text is presented. In my experience, it's always respected the current setting. When you say "use ASCII only" are you referring to the character set to use, or possibly the option to create messages using "plain text"? Many people get tripped up by the "message format" option. There are three options - plain text, rich text and HTML. Actually, the label for this option is "Compose in this message format". This option only controls what the default format will be for a new message - it does not control what format is used when replying or forwarding messages. There are good reasons to match the received format, but I admit it's confusing to many when they want to send a plain text reply to a HTML message. In those cases, the format of the reply/forward can be changed from the menu. If you want to ignore non-plain text in messages, you can set the "Read all standard mail in plain text" option. This is in the E-mail options dialog in Outlook 2003. If you have an older version, you can set a registry entry to affect the same result. This simply means that Outlook will use the "text/plain" MIME body part when presenting messages. Thus, all replies and forwards of received messages will start out in the "Plain text" format. Please forgive this off-topic posting. ---Chuck