"This is a multipart message in MIME format" - Why do I get this?

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KarenF

Hi,
As of this morning, whenever I send an email from Outlook 2007 on my laptop,
the message, when opened by the recipient starts with the phrase

"This is a multipart message in MIME format"

and follows with

------=_NextPart_000_002F_01C95D1A.F399DE10
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


This has never happened before and it looks awful. I got a Blackberry in
October and have successfully been using it as well as my laptop, without
these messages. Could my Blackberry settings have anything to do with this?
Obviously I'm clueless as I'm clutching at straws.

I've tried emailing myself and the message still appears on the received
email.

If anyone could help me disable this message that would be great.

Many thanks,

Karen.
 
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LW

I am having exactly the same problem

Does anyone know what and in particular what I can do to stop all the MIME
code appearing in emails that I send

LW
 
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Andy

Having the same problem too. Started yesterday.


If I use Outlook 2007 or Windows Mail then people who receive emails
from me are shown the MIMI contents of the email, not the rendered
version. My OS is Vista and I am using OneCare for virus monitoring.

I have looked at the raw file that is created in the Outbox folder and
it seems that a 'boundary' section is missing from the email. I gather
that when the receiving client receives this faulty structured email
it doesn't know what to do with it so just displayes the whole lot.

As I said, never had an issue until yesterday so can't help wondering
if something has been changed in the last round of Microsoft updates
which happened on 12-12-2008?

Would be interested to know if anyone else has suddenly developed this
issue or whether someone knows of a fix.

Cheers

Andy
 
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LW

I downloaded updates from MS the day before. I am using Vista and McAfee.

I have no idea what to do about it tho. It is interesting that people
started experiencing the same problem at the same time.

It must be Outlook 2007 as when I use gmail, the problem does not occur
 
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shellbee40

I am having exactly the same problem - and it also started yesterday.
Just started my own query - then found this thread.
 
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hate MS

ok,
after removing : KB958439, 958619, 956828, 956358, 958437, 954600, 956802, 958215,
and booting back and fourth ....... no luck !!!
i hate MS.

i'm calling it a night, if anyone has any ideas, pls .......... thank you.

Assaf.
 
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LW

Does anyone have any ideas what we can do to get this sorted.

It does seem like an Outlook problem
 
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geekay46

Hi there, I'm getting exactly the same with all emails since 13th December -
help please.
 
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I've been having the same issue for the last couple of days but only on my GMAIL accountwhen I access it through Outlook 2003. Other Outlook accounts are fine.
 
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I've got the same issue with Outlook 2007 & a gmail account. Set it to text format for the moment until there is a fix for the html format emails.

Hopefully MS will release a patch/fix soon.
 
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Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]

I have looked at the raw file that is created in the Outbox folder and
it seems that a 'boundary' section is missing from the email. I gather
that when the receiving client receives this faulty structured email
it doesn't know what to do with it so just displayes the whole lot.

As I said, never had an issue until yesterday so can't help wondering
if something has been changed in the last round of Microsoft updates
which happened on 12-12-2008?

Do you have an antivirus application scanning your outgoing mail? If so,
that may be the problem. Uninstall the AV program and reinstall it without
the mail scanning feature. You don't need it anyway.
 
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Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]

I downloaded updates from MS the day before. I am using Vista and McAfee.

Uninstall any of the Outlook updates you received and see if that makes a
difference.
 
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well, looks like my problem is solved,
it looks like removing kb955839 did the trick for me,
but this is after removing 8 other fixes (listed in my prev. post).

can anyone confirm that this is the bad fix ?

thank you.

(BTW, this is a fix for XP, and not for office....)
 

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