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Michael S. Meyers-Jouan
Last month there was an exchange of postings about a change in the behavior
of Outlook for messages in "plain text" format. For a period of several days
(in my case, from December 15 to December 19), every message received by
Outlook in "plain text" format had an attachment added to it. The attachment
is a .TXT file. The name of the file is the same as the subject line of the
message. The text of the .TXT file is the same as the text of the message.
Although this odd behavior stopped on December 19, it's Baaaaack. Beginning
yesterday (2005/01/09), all plain text messages have an added .TXT file as
an attachment.
There is no consistency in the headers of the messages. Some messages have
"Content-Type: text/plain" while others have "Content-Type:
multipart/alternative" and some have no "Content-Type". Some messages have
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit" while others have
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable" and some have no
"Content-Transfer-Encoding".
In my case, I have five POP3 accounts, with the servers operated by several
different ISPs, so it seems extremely unlikely that this is caused by
anything happening before the messages reach my computer.
I am running Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6714) SP3 (that's Outlook XP) on Windows
XP Pro SP2. The only other process that "should" be touching incoming E-mail
is Norton AntiVirus 2004 (Version 10.0.13.3) with automatic Live Update (and
yes, I *DO* believe in scanning incoming messages, because plenty of viruses
get by my ISPs, and I prefer that they NOT end up in my mailbox; even though
I know better than to open suspect messages or open attachments, I've done
so by accident - and I'd rather NOT trust the file-open virus scan if I
don't HAVE to).
If any of the MVPs has any insight into what's causing this behavior, you
would be helping me and several other posters.
of Outlook for messages in "plain text" format. For a period of several days
(in my case, from December 15 to December 19), every message received by
Outlook in "plain text" format had an attachment added to it. The attachment
is a .TXT file. The name of the file is the same as the subject line of the
message. The text of the .TXT file is the same as the text of the message.
Although this odd behavior stopped on December 19, it's Baaaaack. Beginning
yesterday (2005/01/09), all plain text messages have an added .TXT file as
an attachment.
There is no consistency in the headers of the messages. Some messages have
"Content-Type: text/plain" while others have "Content-Type:
multipart/alternative" and some have no "Content-Type". Some messages have
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit" while others have
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable" and some have no
"Content-Transfer-Encoding".
In my case, I have five POP3 accounts, with the servers operated by several
different ISPs, so it seems extremely unlikely that this is caused by
anything happening before the messages reach my computer.
I am running Outlook 2002 (10.6515.6714) SP3 (that's Outlook XP) on Windows
XP Pro SP2. The only other process that "should" be touching incoming E-mail
is Norton AntiVirus 2004 (Version 10.0.13.3) with automatic Live Update (and
yes, I *DO* believe in scanning incoming messages, because plenty of viruses
get by my ISPs, and I prefer that they NOT end up in my mailbox; even though
I know better than to open suspect messages or open attachments, I've done
so by accident - and I'd rather NOT trust the file-open virus scan if I
don't HAVE to).
If any of the MVPs has any insight into what's causing this behavior, you
would be helping me and several other posters.