I have a contact that keeps sending me email and I get it in mime format. The same person sends the same email to another person and they can see the email in a normal format.
How do I correct this problem so that Outlook 2003 will open these emails in another format other than mime? I have looked and looked and can not find anything about making changes to Outlook to correct this problem.
Thanks
I have been reccommending http://tuneup.com to a lot of people recently. Perhpas there is a setting there which can help you?
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Mike
@michael: I just went to http://tuneup.com to see what it was and it appears to just be a bunch of ads to me.
@Jmoo: What is it you don't want to see?
Is it a formating thing, are you see colors or fonts you don't want?
jd2066 - site is down at the moment.
Hmm. Yeah - in stationery options there should be an option for formatting, so check there.
Edit: My bad, forgot the hyphen: http://www.tune-up.com/
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Mike
This is what I am seeing on the emails that I recieve.
Delivered-To: ???????????????????
Return-Path: <??????????????>
Received: from psmtp.com ([::ffff:64.18.1.139])
by mail14.cableone.net with esmtp; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:33:36 -0700
id 011E251E.472EC750.00007F6D
Received: from source ([????]) by exprod6mx16.postini.com ([?????]) with SMTP;
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:29:06 EST
Received: from hotmail.com ([????????]) by bay0-omc1-s25.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
Sun, 4 Nov 2007 23:29:05 -0800
Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
Sun, 4 Nov 2007 23:29:05 -0800
Message-ID: <BAY119-DAV17A742C7CF256BC4D6B224D5880@phx.gbl>
Received: from ????????? by BAY119-DAV17.phx.gbl with DAV;
Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:29:05 +0000
X-Originating-IP: [????????????]
X-Originating-Email: [?????????????]
X-Sender: ??????????????
From: ???????????????????
Subject: Senators vote on English
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:29:02 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0016_01C81F42.DD90DC20"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Nov 2007 07:29:05.0909 (UTC) FILETIME=[8BEE6A50:01C81F7D]
Old-Return-Path: ????????????
X-pstn-levels: (S: 0.02013/97.63965 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 )
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
That is odd. Those appear to email headers and you shouldn't be seeing them as part of the message.
Follow the steps in http://email.about.com/cs/outl.....011302.htm to view the real message headers. Do they match the ones in the message?
I went to that site and did as follows:
View All Message Headers in Outlook 2000, 2002 and 2003
To display all of a message's headers lines in Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2003:
Open the message in a new window in Outlook.
Select View | Options... from the message's menu.
All header lines appear under Internet Headers at the bottom of the dialog that comes up.
The headers are the same. Do you see why I am at a lost in trying to figure out what is going on? All other emails that I get are fine. This is the only sender that I have a problem with. The same email sent to several people is ok except the one I get???????????
Sence the headers are the same all I can guess is a bug in Outlook.
You can try downloading all the latest updates for Office 2003 to see if it helps.
The latest Service Pack (SP3) is at http://www.microsoft.com/downl.....laylang=en
You can also goto Microsoft Update at http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate
It's just like Windows Update only it also updates Office and other Microsoft products, you can get SP3 and any other available Office updates there.
I have had this same problem ever since going on Vista. Never had the problem before. I have SP1 loaded for Vista as well as being up-to-date on Office and still have the issue. Seems to be messages from some Apple computers and Thurderbird clients. After header and message content, I get a content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT with formating all through the message body. Also, if pictures/images included I get pages (2300 in the one I am looking at) of code. If I review message on webmail or Thunderbird, message is fine. It is just Outlook 2003, SP3, that it is messed up. jim b
I just tried the steps mentioned above and the emails don't change. This only happens with emails from one person. Any other suggestions?
(I'm not on vista, I have a pc, and I have outlook 2003)
Mine look like this:
To: XXX
Bcc:
Subject: Attachments
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:22:31 -0500
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_3af1_1b57_5e90"
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Jun 2008 17:22:35.0540 (UTC) FILETIME=[39966540:01C8D7B1]
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_3af1_1b57_5e90
Content-Type: text/html; format=flowed
<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE></DIV>
<P>Ok, here are the attachments...</P>
<P>Pray for me as I am not very PC savvy - obviously!! <IMG height=19 src="http://graphics.hotmail.com/i.p.emsmiled.gif" width=19><BR><BR><BR>DeDe Williams </P>
<DIV></DIV>612-483-2188 (cell)
<DIV></DIV></div></html>
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Content-Type: application/msword; name="SCC Ladies Mtg. Invite.doc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="SCC Ladies Mtg. Invite.doc"
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(this goes on for a long time, and then the email ends like this)
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The html setting is for outgoing email and doesn't seem to be relevant.
I have exactly this problem after moving Outlook 2003 to Vista. The problem is confusingly identified in this forum, actually the issue is that mime format messages are not being displayed, not that ordinary messages are being displayed in mime format. This is often revealed in the lines and lines of header text in the message e.g. "This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your
E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages."
I have checked all my Outlook settings in vista against those in XP where I did not have the problem, they are exactly the same. I conculude it is a microsoft screwup.
Even more odd is that if you actually intercept the message on the web e.g. at your ISPS mail web page, and forward it to yourself, then download all messages into outlook, you get the orginal one screwed up and the forwarded one works fine. This indicates to me it is microsoft singling out other email software (Eudora are the ones I have seen affected by it) for deliberate discrimination. Like they still do to Adobe, allegedly.
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