Outlook vs. Outlook Express on XP

[Guest]

I recently purchased Outlook Express because of its scheduling power, and it is good. But I have had trouble with the email part of that product. I use two email accounts, my general account on MSN and my private comcast account. MSN seems to behave in Outlook just the way it does on OE. Comcast usually does not behave well. Instead Comcast often turns text into plain text and takes inserted graphic images and makes them attachments, and this can be a big nuisance. If I want to send a good email I have to switch from Outlook to OE. I also have to make sure that I do not receive anything in OE because it goes into my OE folders. When I receive stuff on my comcast account it is in plaintext. When I answer, it is in plaintext.

Question.

1. Is there something the Comcast people can do to make their email system work the way MSN does?
2. Is there some way I can keep the graphic from becoming attachments?

Thanks

Dominic

 

[Dave]

its probably not comcast, its the way you have outlook setup. if you are
composing a message in plain text in outlook it has to put graphics as
attachments, there is no way to display them in line in plain text. you can
switch outlook to compose in either rich text or html which does let you put
graphics in line. check the settings in tools/options/mail format. check
the compose format and the internet format button to be sure it will go out
the way you want.

I recently purchased Outlook Express because of its scheduling power, and

it is good. But I have had trouble with the email part of that product. I
use two email accounts, my general account on MSN and my private comcast
account. MSN seems to behave in Outlook just the way it does on OE.
Comcast usually does not behave well. Instead Comcast often turns text into
plain text and takes inserted graphic images and makes them attachments, and
this can be a big nuisance. If I want to send a good email I have to switch
from Outlook to OE. I also have to make sure that I do not receive anything
in OE because it goes into my OE folders. When I receive stuff on my
comcast account it is in plaintext. When I answer, it is in plaintext.

 

[PA Bear]

You purchased MS Outlook, not Outlook Express.

You'll get much better help by posting to this Outlook-specific newsgroup,
Dominic:

microsoft.public.outlook.general
(news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook.general)
--
Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH VSOP

What You Should Know About the Mydoom Worm Variants:
Mydoom.A, Mydoom.B, and Mydoom.C (a.k.a. Doomjuice)
http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/mydoom.asp

Before You Connect a New Computer to the Internet
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/before_you_plug_in.html

 

[Rob Schneider]

It is Outlook, not Outlook Express, that I think you are talking about.
Look more carefully. Outlook is purchased, and Outlook Express is
part of Windows.

Re your problem... my hunch is that you have to go through the settings
for the Comcast Account and review Tools/Options carefully. In Outlook
they are not very logically organised. Just go through the options and
pick.


Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms