Entourage incorrectly rendering HTML in emails

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Shawn Kovalchick

I have a simple email (sent by SharePoint) that Entourage is rendering
incorrectly. I have made sure that complex HTML formatting is turned on
in the HTML preferences. All the HTML tags are stripped out and text is
run tigether. This causes links to be mangled by adding the following
word to the link. (Ex: https://sharepoint.company.org/sites/EXECClick
from the example below.) Below is the html source of the email. Is
there any way to correct this?

<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>DOMAIN\sampleuser is requesting access to: <a
href =
"https://sharepoint.company.org/sites/EXEC">https://sharepoint.company.org/sites/EXEC</a><BR/><BR/>Click
one of the following links:<BR/><BR/>- <a href =
"https://sharepoint.company.org/sites/EXEC/_layouts/1033/aclinv.aspx?users=DOMAIN\sampleuser">Grant
DOMAIN\sampleuser access to the site</a><BR/><BR/>- <a href =
"https://sharepoint.company.org/sites/EXEC/_layouts/1033/setrqacc.aspx?type=web">Manage
request access setting for the site</a><BR/><BR/>Message from
DOMAIN\sampleuser :<BR/>I was trying to get into the Executive
section.<BR/><BR/>Note: Do not reply to this message. It is sent from an
unmonitored account.</BODY></HTML>
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I have a simple email (sent by SharePoint) that Entourage is rendering
incorrectly. I have made sure that complex HTML formatting is turned on
in the HTML preferences. All the HTML tags are stripped out and text is
run tigether. This causes links to be mangled by adding the following
word to the link. (Ex: https://sharepoint.company.org/sites/EXECClick
from the example below.) Below is the html source of the email. Is
there any way to correct this?

<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>DOMAIN\sampleuser is requesting access to: <a
href =
"https://sharepoint.company.org/sites/EXEC">https://sharepoint.company.org/sit
es/EXEC</a><BR/><BR/>Click
one of the following links:<BR/><BR/>- <a href =
"https://sharepoint.company.org/sites/EXEC/_layouts/1033/aclinv.aspx?users=DOM
AIN%5Csampleuser">Grant
DOMAIN\sampleuser access to the site</a><BR/><BR/>- <a href =
"https://sharepoint.company.org/sites/EXEC/_layouts/1033/setrqacc.aspx?type=we
b">Manage
request access setting for the site</a><BR/><BR/>Message from
DOMAIN\sampleuser :<BR/>I was trying to get into the Executive
section.<BR/><BR/>Note: Do not reply to this message. It is sent from an
unmonitored account.</BODY></HTML>
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All those <BR/> tags should be simply <BR> .

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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ignored.

PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.
 
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Michel Bintener

Actually Paul, in XHTML the tag should be <BR />. Note the space.

Brian
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Forgive me for being pedantic, but in valid XHTML, tags should never be in
capital letters. The correct XHTML tag would be <br />.

Michel
 
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Brian Smithson

Forgive me for being pedantic, but in valid XHTML, tags should never be in
capital letters. The correct XHTML tag would be <br />.

Michel
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Pedants unite! :)

Actually, Michel, you are quite right. I was going to use the lower case,
but decided to use upper to match the previous post.

Brian
 
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Shawn Kovalchick

Brian said:
Pedants unite! :)

Actually, Michel, you are quite right. I was going to use the lower case,
but decided to use upper to match the previous post.

Brian
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It's nice that the tags should be <br /> instead of <BR/>, but that
doesn't answer my question. Is there something that can be done to make
the emails render properly? I can't change the email, since it is
automatically generated by SharePoint, and all browsers seem to be able
to render it appropriately.
 
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mmmmark

Shawn Kovalchick said:
It's nice that the tags should be <br /> instead of <BR/>, but that
doesn't answer my question. Is there something that can be done to make
the emails render properly? I can't change the email, since it is
automatically generated by SharePoint, and all browsers seem to be able to
render it appropriately.
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There is a script somewhere in this newsgroup (try a search or wait for
someone to post it again) that will open an html email in your browser of
choice, thereby rendering it as intended.

-Mark
 
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Shawn Kovalchick

mmmmark said:
There is a script somewhere in this newsgroup (try a search or wait for
someone to post it again) that will open an html email in your browser of
choice, thereby rendering it as intended.

-Mark
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Thanks Mark. I found it.
 

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