Mozilla mail question

[Susan Macchia]

>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

I've tried that and I still don't see the email as originally formatted.  As I
said before, If I save the email in outlook as html, mozilla views it just fine
(even as an attachment).  I am running 1.3a, but have had this problem since
1.1...

Thanks.  Any other ideas?

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