Re: OE6 "plain text" bugs after SP2
From: Euclid (Euclid_at_mmiv.nu)
Date: 09/04/04
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Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 14:07:20 -0500
Thanks for the link. No, I hadn't read it, but have read it now. It explains
"Limit External HTML Content Downloads" which I hadn't seen mentioned
anywhere before. There's apparently no Help content for it in OE.
However it does not address the bugs which I've listed at the top of this
thread. And I just thought of another one...
(4) Instead of breaking a link to fit the window when reading a message, it
is printed in one very long line. That invokes a horizontal scrollbar which
could be enormously long, depending on the length of the link. That's not
the way to do it. It's another bug.
-E
"Jim Pickering" <jimp@mvps.0rg> wrote in message
news:OrXCu0qkEHA.3536@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Have you read this?
>
> Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2: Part 4:
> E-mail Handling Technologies:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2email.mspx
> --
> Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
> Please reply only to newsgroup.
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> "Euclid" <Euclid@mmiv.nu> wrote in message
> news:OA49HPqkEHA.592@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> [Compaq Presario S4020M, Windows XP Home, SP2 installed from the
>> Microsoft CD received in the mail]
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>> I always use the options to read & send all messages in plain text, for
>> both email and news.
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>> (1) Reading messages in the preview pane, or doubleclicking to expand
>> them in their own window, has lost the automatic underlining and blue
>> color of email addresses. That makes it difficult to find the email
>> addresses in a message. At the same time, URL's still appear underlined
>> in blue text. That makes no sense, so the failure of email addresses to
>> appear underlined in blue is a bug.
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>> (2) When reading messages, the preview pane's scrollbar won't scroll all
>> the way to the bottom. It stops 1 line before the bottom. All of the text
>> in the message can still be read provided there is a line feed/carriage
>> return at the bottom, but it looks funny. Clicking in the message window
>> allows use of the cursor down/right keys to scroll all the way to the
>> bottom of the message, which is the only way. I consider this a bug.
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>> (3) They still have not fixed the bug for copying something from a html
>> source into the plain text composition window. It appears in html format,
>> not plain text as it should. In particular this is a nuisance if you try
>> to copy something from the Subject field into the text body of the
>> composition window - it appears in strange looking html format. I note
>> that these messages are still sent correctly, but it makes formatting
>> difficult. One possible workaround is to switch the window to html format
>> then back to plain text format from the menu, but that's a lot of
>> trouble. It's a bug.
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>> Maybe I'll think of something else, which I'll post in a followup...
>> -E
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