"This is a MIME-formatted message..."

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NAUAuntie

This is the error that I get:

"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 Outlook 2007 on a Vista Home Premium HP Pavillion dv6000 series.
I got messages like this on my Outlook 2003 program too, but thought it
would go away with 2007, but apparently not.

Is there a setting in my Outlook "Options" that will enable me to receive
these messages in a format I can read?

And is there a KB # for this issue yet, or better yet, a fix?

Thank you for your help.

Jane

*Courage is the power to let go of the familiar*
 
V

VanguardLH

It's not an error. It is how the sender composed their e-mail. Their
e-mail client structured it as such:

<headers>
<blank line>
<warning message about MIME encoding>
<plain-text MIME part>
<HTML MIME part>

If an e-mail client doesn't support HTML or is configured to render in
plain-text mode, it selects the text MIME part to display that message.
It it does support HTML formatted e-mails (and is configured to show
them as HTML) then it selects the HTML MIME part to display that
message.

I suspect that you have Outlook configured to read in plain-text only
mode. That means Outlook cannot display the HTML MIME part but has to
display the text MIME part. Alas, the text outside that MIME part also
gets displayed. After all, it is plain text, too. The sender added the
plain-text warning message at the start of their e-mail. If an e-mail
client doesn't support HTML, this warning helps them to understand why
the message will have a text portion followed by a bunch of HTML
gibberish (unless that client understands enough of HTML to know it
should hide the HTML MIME part). Rarely is this text warning message
needed in an e-mail. If the recipient's e-mail client doesn't
understand HTML, the recipient will see the text MIME part, anyway.

So you are not seeing an error. You are seeing what is in the e-mail
itself. That warning is plain text within the body of the e-mail. It
is not Outlook generating an error that it puts inside the body of that
e-mail.
 

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