Outlook 2003 ignoring line-breaks in ASCII

[Tim Benzedrine]

Suddenly my Outlook 2003 XP has decided that it won't format incoming
text emails properly. It as if it is ignoring line-breaks in the
original ASCII messages. When I read the same mail on Outlook installed
on my desktop machine the messages line-break properly, but on Outlook
here on my laptop -- same version, same messages -- the emails are a
jumble of text.

For example, here is what an email in my inbox looks like on my laptop:

Cheers, Norm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Benezdrine"
<[email protected]> To: "'John B. Doe" <[email protected]> Sent:
Wednesday, December 31, 2003 2:04 PM Subject: Data > Hi Norm -- > >
Happy new year to you as well. Here is the final data for you -- a
little > over one hundred respondents, but I haven't checked for
duplicates. > > I'll tear into my data over the weekend so that we can
compare notes a > little before publishing. > > Cheers. > > T. >

Here is something like what the email should have looked like:



Cheers, Norm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Benezdrine" <[email protected]>
To: "'John B. Doe" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 2:04 PM
Subject: Data

Hi Norm --

little > over one hundred respondents, but I haven't checked for
duplicates.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

look at the infobar - are line breaks removed in plain text messages? tools,
options, preferences, email to change the setting.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)


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[Tim Benzedrine]

look at the infobar - are line breaks removed in plain text messages? tools,
options, preferences, email to change the setting.

Yes, but that's not the issue. Both my copies of Outlook are set to remove
extra line-breaks, and only one ruins text messaging formating. My other
copy of outlook merely removes extra line-breaks, as it's supposed. And
either way, when I change the setting to not remove said breaks, the
incoming email is still munged in one copy of Outlook 2003, but fine in the
other. Baffling.