Re: Sending HTML from Outlook to non-Outlook clients

From: Jim Walsh (DrJim_at_newsgroups.nospam)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:39:28 -0500

Final follow-up.

I went to the GroupWise newsgroups. They discuss the issue there.

There is a configuration option in GroupWise to set the Compose
and/or Read views to either HTML or plain text.

That solved the problem

Thanks to Brian and Sue for their help with this problem

Jim

"Jim Walsh" <DrJim@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:eVUiw8T3EHA.3472@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> This is a repost of this message. The first try got absolutely no
responses.
> Certainly, someone must know something about this.....
>
> I have some correspondents that are using GroupWise as their e-mail
client.
>
> I have noted that they are usually unable to read e-mail that I send to
them
> that has been prepared and sent from Outlook using HTML format.
>
> A search of this subject on the GroupWise support website turned up the
> following information. I quote from their website:
>
> <=============
> The Novell GroupWise 6.5 Client and above determine that a document is to
be
> displayed in HTML by one of two methods.
>
>
> 1. The message has a first level attachment of Text.Html and the document
> contains a tag like the following:
>
> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>
> Note: The character set does not have to be "iso-8859-1" but it does
have
> to be a vaild character set. If text/html is specified without a
character
> set specification, the client will treat the document as plain text.
>
> This tag tells the GroupWise client that the document is content Text/Html
> and specifies a Character Set.
>
> 2. The message has a Mime.822 atachment that specifices the following:
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Note: Again, the Character Set does not have to be "iso-8859-1" but it
> does have to be a vaild character set. If text/html is specified without
a
> character set specification, the client will treat the document as plain
> text.
>
> The Novell GroupWise 6.5 and above client will only display a message in
> HTML if both HTML and the Character Set are specified. HTML documents
that
> do not specify a character set could be a possible security violation.
The
> WC3 Standards Organization has some good information on the subject.
>
> ================>
>
> When I look at the Internet header of HTML e-mail that I am sending from
> Outlook, I observe the following:
>
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----=_NextPart_000_007C_01C4D7CC.91512150"
>
>
> It appears to me that this is the cause of the problem. Does anyone know
of
> a way to have Outlook include an Internet header that would be compatible
> with GroupWise, and, apparently the Internet standard?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Jim
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