Mozilla mail question

Tim Wunder tim
Mon May 17 11:43:00 PDT 2004


On 1/9/2003 12:13 PM, someone claiming to be Susan Macchia wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Before I state my problem, I want to apologize for this not being a linux only
> question.  But I thought that some of you might have experienced this problem. 
> Ok, here goes:
> 
> At my job most folks use MS Outlook for email and generally format their email
> in HTML.
> 
> I use Mozilla connecting to the exchange server which is POP.  I like mozilla
> much better, with its color coding of the inbox, etc.  When I receive outlook
> html formatted email, it looks like plain text in mozilla.  This is a real
> problem because in lengthy conversations, it becomes much more difficult to
> follow since color coding and font changes may be used.  I have tried saving an
> Outlook mail that I've sent as html and then reading it with mozilla, and it
> looks fine.  This leads me to believe that the html produced by outlook is
> readable by mozilla.  When I read email that I've sent (formatted as html), it
> looks fine in both outlook and mozilla.
> 
> I've searched the mozilla preferces over and over to see if there is some kind
> of setting, but don't see anything.  Does anyone have any idea what mozilla
> could be doing?
> 
> BTW, I tried Kmail and it has the same problem!  So it could be something in
> outlook?  Ideas of where I could start to look would be welcome.
> 
> TIA
> 
> 

Depending on the Mozilla version...
View-Message Body As-<choose to suit>
from the Mail window.

I've got mine to view as plain text, but when viewed as HTML it works 
fine...

I'm using a current Mozilla nightly, which would place it at version  1.3a+

HTH,
Tim




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