Outlook - A Code Monster?

[CountZero]

Is there a way of stopping OL from destroying HTML code when forwarding
HTML formatted emails ... it seems to be very, very aggressive and eats
any formatted mail that I attempt to send, it inserts <p> tags every
where - I've even seen it change the height and width attributes of
<img> tags etc. etc. This hasn't anything to do with my local
settings - I've tried every possible combination and permutation of
every check box and select box there is to be found - all to no avail
- we've been able to consistently reproduce this issue on both
sides of the world on many, many machines - help? Anyone? or even
just a reason why OL is doing this so I can sleep at nights again ...

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

There's no way to change that and what gets inserted and where is partially
up to the email editor. It's different with the Outlook editor and with
WordMail. WordMail produces the ugliest HTML you can think of.

 

[Vanguard]

Is there a way of stopping OL from destroying HTML code when
forwarding
HTML formatted emails ... it seems to be very, very aggressive and
eats
any formatted mail that I attempt to send, it inserts <p> tags every
where - I've even seen it change the height and width attributes of
<img> tags etc. etc. This hasn't anything to do with my local
settings - I've tried every possible combination and permutation of
every check box and select box there is to be found - all to no
avail
- we've been able to consistently reproduce this issue on both
sides of the world on many, many machines - help? Anyone? or even
just a reason why OL is doing this so I can sleep at nights again
...

So if you are forwarding an e-mail, why are you forwarding or a piece
of it? If you are forwarding inline to your NEW e-mail message, all
you get is a copy of the content. The recipient of your forwarded
mail doesn't get the headers of the original mail that you claim that
you are forwarding. Forward as attachment instead of including only a
portion of it inline. Then the recipient really does get the original
message, not your particular modified version of it.

Outlook is not a full HTML editor. Word, if you use that instead of
Outlook's embedded editor, is also not an HTML editor (it will do HTML
but it's code is bloated, lots of directives that only work if Word is
also used by the recipient, and very difficult to read). You get what
those particular editors support for HTML along with their particular
idiosyncrasies.