Is there a setting to convert message to HTML?

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Katwomanofsteele

I know how to send email in Outlook 2k/XP as HTML, but Outlook is not
converting received messages to HTML. All HTML tags are displaying and the
message is "plain text". I read there was a setting in 2003 to read all
messages as plain text, is there one I am missing in 2k/XP? I can tell the
HTML code is good, so why isn't Outlook reading it when it can send it?

btw - I tried searching previous posts about this issue and none were
responded to. I hope there is a way to do this.
 
Katwomanofsteele said:
Apparently, Outlook needs the correct Meta tags to read HTML - can't
just have HTML (even if it is valid) in the body of the message like
you can in other clients that can read HTML (internet email via web,
ie hotmail, etc).
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If it doesn't have the correct meta data, it is, by definition, invalid
HTML, no matter what some other program does with it.
 
I disagree. HTML does not need Meta tags at all to be valid HTML.

You can write a page <HTML><BODY>test</BODY></HTML> and the browser will
parse it.

XHTML is stricter than HTML on what is valid and what is invalid.
 
Katwomanofsteele said:
I disagree. HTML does not need Meta tags at all to be valid HTML.
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I guess I consider <HTML> <./HTML> to be meta tags. Perhaps that's not
exact usage of the term. What I thought you were taking about is the
tendency of some HTML-aware mail agents to interpret HTML no matter where it
is found in the message body.
 
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