How do I get Outlook to display plain text attachments?

[Guest]

I get a substantial amount of e-mails that contain combinations of text and
links as a group of attachments where Outlook blocks the text portion of the
e-mail, resulting in blank pages with the occaisional link appearing soewhere
on the page. This happens whether or not the e-mail comes from an unknown
source or from someone on my safe senders list. For example, I am a student
at the University of Michigan and about half of the e-mails I get from varius
University departments have no text, despite the fact that the umich.edu
domain is on my safe sender's list. I have been unable to discover any way
to stop Outlook from blocking these plain text attachments from people I
trust. If anyone else has seen this problem or heard of a soulution I would
appreciate hearing about it.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Outlook doesn't block text in the message. Something is damaging the message
before the message is received in Outlook. Virus scanners that integrate
with Outlook are a known source of being able to cause corruption to a
message. If you have a virus scanner that integrates with Outlook, disable
this integration and download the messages again.

 

[Guest]

I am continuing to try to understand what might be causing this problem.
Just to provide a little more information;
I am running Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise (student license) Edition on
Vista Small Business with no virus protection, just the Windows fire wall and
Windows Defender for security.
When I get the blank messages I forward them to my Yahoo account and I can
read them just fine there. I'm afraid I don't understand where the
corruption might be occuring.
Thanks for the help!