Microsoft Screws uo outlook again

[mohawkspa]

I have outlook 2003, everything has been great, so what do they do?
Microsoft does a "security" update, and now all my messages that were in
HTML are totally screwed. I went in and tried to reset Outlook, and the new
messages look ok, but all my old ones are totally unreadable. I HATE MS and
their superior than you attitude on updates. They give cryptic information
and them make global changes that are not reversible. What a bunch of jerks,
and they charge us for this pain! I am pixxed off!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Your message is itself a bit cryptic, since it doesn't describe in any detail what "totally unreadable" actually looks like. Nor does it say what "security update" you applied. Was it Office 2003 Service Pack 2? Look on your Help | Microsoft Outlook dialog.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[mohawkspa]

I have answered this twice but the included text gets blocked, it is SP2
outlook 2003
It looks like text mixed with html code. as I said unreadable. There is no
help that covers the update. I want to remove it.


Your message is itself a bit cryptic, since it doesn't describe in any
detail what "totally unreadable" actually looks like. Nor does it say what
"security update" you applied. Was it Office 2003 Service Pack 2? Look on
your Help | Microsoft Outlook dialog.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[mohawkspa]

It has SP2 applied to outlook 2003 and here a text example of a reply:
Now there is a message to me somewhere in there, also there is no way to
reverse this! well except to open a message, and then right click on the
info bar and select HTML, but who wants to do that all day?

eBay sent this message to Joseph Terry (eddie099).

Your registered name is included to show this message originated from eBay.
Learn more <http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/name-userid-emails.html> .

<http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/email/syiSessions/hdrLeft_13x39.gif>
Response to Question about Item -- Respond Now
eBay<http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/email/syiSessions/hdrRight_90x39.gif>

<http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif> eBay sent this message on behalf
of an eBay member via My Messages. Responses sent using email will go to the
eBay member directly and will include your email address. Click the Respond
Now button below to send your response via My Messages (your email address
will not be included).

<http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/s.gif>

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

This message in fact may be a case study in why this security feature is a good thing. It looks like phishing, an attempt to get you to visit a web site and reveal personal information. If it's in your Junk E-mail folder, it will appear in plain text, thus showing all the URLs that don't point to eBay that the sender was eager to hide. If you move it out of the Junk E-mail folder to another folder, you'll see the original HTML. If Outlook 2003 SP2 rated it as attempted phishing, you still won't be able to click the links unless you specifically authorize it through the yellow InfoBar at the top of the item.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[JET]

Nope actually it is a real message from an ebay user to me. Thank goodness
ebay keeps a copy of messages on their web site.
I was not able to post the whole message for some reason OE blocked it from
going out as it was copied over from Outlook 2003.
So much for cross function operability in MS programs.
And you are right as I have described in other post about how to view in the
Junk Mail filter. HOWEVER that does not excuse Microsoft from implementing a
Service Pack as an update "automatically" making changes, and never giving
the end user the option to test, or remove if it breaks something. I call
that abusive. and taking negative position to its user base.
Like I say, you broke it, you fix it. It may be interesting to send MS a
bill for my time to investigate what they did and its effects, with no
warning or options of removal.


This message in fact may be a case study in why this security feature is a
good thing. It looks like phishing, an attempt to get you to visit a web
site and reveal personal information. If it's in your Junk E-mail folder, it
will appear in plain text, thus showing all the URLs that don't point to
eBay that the sender was eager to hide. If you move it out of the Junk
E-mail folder to another folder, you'll see the original HTML. If Outlook
2003 SP2 rated it as attempted phishing, you still won't be able to click
the links unless you specifically authorize it through the yellow InfoBar at
the top of the item.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers


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