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Subject: Multi-Part Email Messages and Strange Formatting
Category: Computers > Programming
Asked by: swive-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 25 Mar 2005 11:00 PST
Expires: 30 Mar 2005 12:17 PST
Question ID: 500362
I run an online store and we are trying to make sure that when our
multipart HTML and text formatted emails are sent out that they are
viewed correctly.

I have noticed a trend that when any of our customers are using MS
Outlook it will reformat the HTML code and in some instances
completely change it. Has anybody else run across this problem?  How
do I fix it?

Here are a few examples....

[original]
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0066CC">

[Outlook's formatting]
<BODY link=3D#006c00 bgColor=3D#ffff00>

---------------

[original]
<a href="http://estore.[address removed]">http://estore.[address removed]</a>

[Outlook's formatting]
<A=20
href=3D'ttp://estore.[address removed]"'>http://estor=
e.[address removed]</A>

---------------

Obviously, this is a problem as when the user goes to follow the link
they get a page not found because it's trying to find
"ttp://estore...etc."

I get HTML formatted emails all the time from companies and I'm sure
other Outlook users do as well.  Why am I having this problem?  Is
there something I am overlooking here?

I can provide more examples and such via email, but would rather not
post the site location here.
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