automatic conversion from text/plain to HTML

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cleepdar

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: Exchange

Entourage seems to automatically convert messages sent as plain text to text/html.

For example, a message is sent as basic text/plain via command-line on Linux.

When read in entourage 2008 Message->Source has the following:

.....
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V8.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: "Root" <[email protected]>
To: "Me" <[email protected]>
....

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version =
08.01.0240.003">
<TITLE>test message</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<!-- Converted from text/plain format -->
<BR>

Is there any way to avoid this automatic conversion?
 
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Corentin Cras-Méneur

Hi,
Entourage seems to automatically convert messages sent as plain text to
text/html.

For example, a message is sent as basic text/plain via command-line on
Linux.

When read in entourage 2008 Message->Source has the following:

....
Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V8.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: "Root" <[email protected]>
To: "Me" <[email protected]>
Click to expand...


It's not Entourage. It's your Exchange server. It even says so on the
headers:
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V8.1
Click to expand...

Other people have had the same issue and it is a major pain. This has to
be turned off by your Exchange admin,


Corentin
 
C

cleepdar

Thanks for your reply.

What let me to post the question here was the fact that viewing the same message in Outlook (through same email account) displays in text/plain as expected.

Searching for previous reports of this behavior have not turned up any solutions yet.
 

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