Email is like HTML source code

D

Dan DeCoursey

Hello From time to time Iget email from folks that look like this
( see EXAMPLE below )

how does this happen.....is it them or me ? I think it is them
If so how do they fix this and get back to sending out regular read able
email ?




EXAMPLE :
<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta
name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered)">

<style>
<!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Arial Unicode MS";
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"\@Arial Unicode MS";
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoAutoSig, li.MsoAutoSig, div.MsoAutoSig
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
p
{margin-right:0in;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";}
span.EmailStyle18
{font-family:Arial;
color:navy;}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
-->
</style>

</head>

<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue>

<div class=Section1>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi All,</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>For those interested….. You can keep
tabs on how Steve Greer is doing ..go to caringbridge.com and put in
<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>bigsteve</span></b> and you can check up or go to
the guest book….. </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>He’s a tough lad but keep him in your
prayers </span></font></p>
 
B

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]

Hello From time to time Iget email from folks that look like this
( see EXAMPLE below )
Click to expand...

What version of Outlook? What version of Windows? Can you receive any HTML
messages? Have you examined the MIME headers with View>Options to see if
they look correct?
 
P

Pat Willener

What is the message type of the incoming message, Plain Text or HTML?

If it is Plain Text, then it is the sender's fault.
 

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