Re: Need Explanation of OE6 Behavior

From: Michael Santovec (michael_santovec_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:01:22 -0700

If you want to see what's going on under the hood, click on the Source tab at the bottom
of the message composition window. If you are not familiar with HTML coding, you'll need
to do some reading on this.

It's up the web page designer as to whether or not FONTs are specified in the page. So
depending on the page you may inherit a font specification.

In OE at Tools, Options, Send, Mail, HTML Settings is a Send Picture option. If you check
that option,images are included in the message, which can make it huge. Otherwise, just a
link to the image is included, presumably on the web site. If you don't have an open
Internet connection when you view the mail, you won't see the images (unless you have
recently viewed them and they are still in your IE Temporary Internet Files).

There is no resend option in the Windows version of OE. There are 3 workarounds:

- Start a new message, then copy/paste the text from the message in the Sent Items folder.
- Forward the message. But this looks tacky
- Do a File, Save As of the message to an EML file (or drag-and-drop). Open the EML file
in Notepad. Add the line
X-Unsent: 1
to the message header (after the DATE: line is a good spot). Save the file, then double
click the EML file from the Windows File Explorer. You can now modify and send the
message.

The 3rd one would be best in your case. 

-- 
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Jon Cobin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:185d01c4ad59$102ce9d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>I often like to place web pages inline with message text
> in the emails I send.  I do this by copying and pasting
> the web page into the body of the email message text.  I
> haven't seen this technique mentioned anywhere--even in
> the online help for Outlook Express on my W98 machine--and
> I sort of discovered it on my own.  It seems to work fine
> most of the time, and the recipients seem to like the
> format in which these things are viewable in the message
> without having to explicitly open an attachment.  But I am
> not really aware of what's happening 'under the hood' so
> to speak.  I was hoping you could explain a couple of
> problems I've run into, and if you can tell me if there
> might be any others I might run into, I would appreciate
> it:
>
> I sometimes, but not always, get an alternate font (e.g.
> Times New Roman) which replaces an Arial-like font on the
> page.  I also sometimes get (when actually sending) a
> message about the 'encoding', asking if I would like to
> send it as is, or use an alternate encoding.  What's going
> on here?
>
> Having successfully sent such a message (with inline web
> pages), I will later on decide I'd like to send it to
> someone else, and I do this by retrieving the message from
> my 'Sent' folder and re-copying and pasting the complete
> contents into a new message.  I don't know of any other
> way of converting a 'sent' message into a new message--do
> you?  In any event I will sometimes get a warning
> that 'some of the images cannot be found', although all of
> the images seem to be present during the composing of the
> message, and I send it as such.  However, when I later
> retrieve this newly-sent message from the 'Sent' folder
> for viewing, I find that many of the images have been
> replaced by 'placeholder' frames.  I'm not sure whether
> this is the way the message is being received, or if this
> just has something to do with the way such a message is
> stored in the 'Sent' folder.  Can you also explain these
> phenomena for me?

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