Rich Text Hell - Please help

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Scott McDonald

I am getting really really sick of MS rich text in outlook. Chasing down vCards and iCalendar's is incredibly irritating especially when it's the CEO of the company that's complaining about it (and not nicely either).

We do not have an exchange server right now, just a linux pop server and the outlook clients are 2000 and 2003. Continually people send iCalendars/appointments back and forth within the company and they come through garbled.

Sometimes putting a check in the box for sending iCal format over the net solves it, sometimes it causes it. If it solves it for x user sending to y user then when x user sends to z user (that previously worked fine) it's garbled for them now.

How for the love of god can I keep this from happening permanently?
 
Scott McDonald said:
We do not have an exchange server right now, just a linux pop server
and the outlook clients are 2000 and 2003. Continually people send
iCalendars/appointments back and forth within the company and they
come through garbled.
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Send in Plain Text or HTML only?
 
There is a simple solution for your problems. Get an exchange server,
lol.... ;p

I don't mean to make fun of you or your situation in anyway, but this sounds
to me like a compatibility issue. It sounds like if the pop server is not
processing the messages adecuately. If You have heavy use of Microsoft
Outlook features, then you definitely need that Exchange server to save you
from the Linux monster that chases you in your dreams....


I am getting really really sick of MS rich text in outlook. Chasing down
vCards and iCalendar's is incredibly irritating especially when it's the CEO
of the company that's complaining about it (and not nicely either).

We do not have an exchange server right now, just a linux pop server and the
outlook clients are 2000 and 2003. Continually people send
iCalendars/appointments back and forth within the company and they come
through garbled.

Sometimes putting a check in the box for sending iCal format over the net
solves it, sometimes it causes it. If it solves it for x user sending to y
user then when x user sends to z user (that previously worked fine) it's
garbled for them now.

How for the love of god can I keep this from happening permanently?
 
we're moving to it in the next few weeks (had a bad experience with the last
one so we've taken a long time to nail down a good redundant mail server
situation involving exchange). Problem is I'm getting bitched at now :-(
 
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Scott McDonald said:
we're moving to it in the next few weeks (had a bad experience with the last
one so we've taken a long time to nail down a good redundant mail server
situation involving exchange). Problem is I'm getting bitched at now :-(
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