send as plain text not working

[Michael Appelmans]

I have several contacts who have Eudora, Hotmail etc and I have set
their send preference to send as plain text. But when I create a new
email it obviously defaults to HTML format. What I don't understand is
if I use the "create new message to contact" menu option for one of
these contacts I still get the default HTML format, not a plain text
format.

It would be really nice if Outlook actually checked the setting and
depending whose email address is in the To: field it would send the
correct format. Even smarter would be if it sent the right format to
users in a list of email addresses.

I'm using Outlook 2002.

Thanks for any help with this annoyance.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

do the messages arrives as html or plain text? The format in the compose
window doesn't really matter - outlook *should* strip the HTML part off when
it sends the message to people marked as plain text only.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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