Outlook Express, Text Wrap and Embedded Images

[W. Watson]

There's probably a OE place to post this, but I have no idea where.

I use Mozilla as a browser and for e-mail. I often get e-mail from people
who use OE. I find that my e-mail response window often sees the sender's
text as one long string, and I have to rewrap it. What are OE users doing to
cause that, or I'm missing in Moz?

Again in the case of OE, I'll send out an e-mail msg with embedded images
(jpg), and some one will respond. I find the original image right back at
me. How do they (or I but not likely) prevent this?

Is there some Preference setting in OE that solves this?

Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the
commonplace." -- Sherlock Holmes, in "A Case of Identity"

 

[Rock]

There's probably a OE place to post this, but I have no idea where.

I use Mozilla as a browser and for e-mail. I often get e-mail from people
who use OE. I find that my e-mail response window often sees the sender's
text as one long string, and I have to rewrap it. What are OE users doing
to cause that, or I'm missing in Moz?

Again in the case of OE, I'll send out an e-mail msg with embedded images
(jpg), and some one will respond. I find the original image right back at
me. How do they (or I but not likely) prevent this?

Is there some Preference setting in OE that solves this?

The first item is a function of your email client. Post to a newsgroup for
it - is it Thunderbird? Google for the newsgroup.

I'm not sure what you are asking in the second question, and what email
client you're using in that situation.

 

[Ron Sommer]

Look at the source of the emails that do not wrap.
Does it say something like this?

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0CAA_01C73C77.27AFDCC0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

When quoted printable is used, the beginning and end of paragraphs are
marked.
Line wrap settings are not used.
If you change the width of the message window, the paragraph will change to
fill the width of the message window.
The problem is with Moz.

If you don't want images coming back in a reply, attach the images and do
imbed them.
The attached images will be displayed below the message body.
Imbedded images are displayed in the body and below the body.
--
Ronald Sommer

: There's probably a OE place to post this, but I have no idea where.
:
: I use Mozilla as a browser and for e-mail. I often get e-mail from people
: who use OE. I find that my e-mail response window often sees the sender's
: text as one long string, and I have to rewrap it. What are OE users doing
to
: cause that, or I'm missing in Moz?
:
: Again in the case of OE, I'll send out an e-mail msg with embedded images
: (jpg), and some one will respond. I find the original image right back at
: me. How do they (or I but not likely) prevent this?
:
: Is there some Preference setting in OE that solves this?
:
: Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
: (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
: Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
:
: "Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the
: commonplace." -- Sherlock Holmes, in "A Case of Identity"
: --
: Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>

 

[W. Watson]

Look at the source of the emails that do not wrap.
Does it say something like this?

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0CAA_01C73C77.27AFDCC0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

When quoted printable is used, the beginning and end of paragraphs are
marked.
Line wrap settings are not used.
If you change the width of the message window, the paragraph will change to
fill the width of the message window.
The problem is with Moz.

If you don't want images coming back in a reply, attach the images and do
imbed them.
The attached images will be displayed below the message body.
Imbedded images are displayed in the body and below the body.

Thanks for the response.

In the latter case, I find it strange that any mail program would return
embedded images, and not have some control for the user to prevent them from
being returned in a reply.

In the former case, I believe I've seen the same person (one I know well)
who uses OE (I'm pretty sure for this) send me messages from work and from
home with different wrap results. That is, when I go to reply to his work
msgs, I have to rewrap, but, from home, I do not. Unfortunately, he's not
too savvy about solving the problem. I will look in the header of his
e-mails to see what's going on.


Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the
commonplace." -- Sherlock Holmes, in "A Case of Identity"

 

[PA Bear]

OE-specific newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general