Randy,
Does Redmond, Washington know you're using _their_ software to post to the
oppostition's mailing list? Furthermore, are they aware that you're a
part-time Linux user and very likely a "dual-booter" at that? heavens!
:-P
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"Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more blood than lions."
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Robin wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>Just putting in my $0.02 here to whoever cares. With Outlook XP, the
>email format _can_ be changed with the choice of HTML, Plain Text or
>Rich Text for _both_ sending and replying mail.
>I don't have Outlook 2000 or 98 running here, so cannot comment on that.
>However, I assume that instead of replying, the text in message can
>always be copied and pasted into a new message with Plain Text format
>:^).
>
>BTW, Outlook XP also automatically blocks off sending and receiving
>files with exe, vbs and quite a few others, if anyone figures out how to
>save those attachments please let me know, thanks.
>
>Robin
>________________
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>To Randy
>
>If you like to add screen shot of where to turn off HTML in Outlook XP,
>let me know and I will email them to you.
>
>Robin
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Franki
>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 3:58 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs
>
>
>I think that Outlook 2000 (what I am writing this with..)
>will only send html if the email that you are replying to is html.. I
>have outlook set to text only on new messages, and txt only on reply..
>but outlook still occasionally uses html if you respond to a html
>email..
>
>its a pain that.. pretty soon I will ditch outlook and then winblows
>altogether..
>
>Virus's are going to demand that I do, my linux mail server has stopped
>so many virus's from being recieved lately that it is rediculous... and
>I don't believe that its going to get any better...
>
>Still, even if I was using only linux I would still use
>postfix/amavisd/filescan to do all my emailing, because I don't wish to
>make matters worse, and even if uneffected myself, I would not want to
>pass virus's along not knowing what they are, (since the will not
>execute on linux I may not even know they are virus's and pass them on.)
>
>but I love the fact that my 3 linux mail servers all do a fantastic job
>of protecting winblows users.
>
>I have saved about 30 or more virus's in the last week, and most of them
>have been badtrans... (got another 3 of them last night.)
>
>love this linux..
>
>Frank
>Mandrake8.1
>kernel 2.4.16-1mdk
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of George Jones (IT)
>Sent: Tuesday, 4 December 2001 2:57 AM
>To: 'Expert'
>Subject: RE: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs
>
>
>Sweet!!! This email should be in plain text now.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 1:49 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] viruses, worms, trojans, html, pgp sigs
>
>
>I don't use Outlook, but I once tried to help somebody shut off HTML
>sending and think I accomplished it (for Outlook 97). Try checking out
>this page:
>
>http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/OutlookExpressPlainText
>
>Note a few things:
>
> * Even though the URL refers to Outlook Express, I am fairly certain
>that this was really for Outlook 97. There are some screen shots
>attached that might help (and they show the critical checkbox to uncheck
>the option to send HTML).
>
> * The page is *very* rough -- I collected the information
>(mistakenly) because I thought it was Outlook that my friend was having
>trouble with -- when I found out it was Exchange, I just saved the notes
>for future reference.
>
> * If you look into that page, give me some feedback -- you can do
>that either by email or by adding comments to the page.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Randy Kramer
>
>
>Mike Leone wrote:
>> No, that won't help. I don't use Word as my email editor - no sane
>> person does :-) - and my Outlook still likes to send in HTML. Outlook
>> Express seems to obey the "plain text only" wishes of it's users, tho.
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