When you receive an e-mail message sent from Microsoft Internet Mail, it
may contain an attached file with an .att or .txt extension. In some
cases, a plain text version of the message may also be included.
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This behavior occurs when any of the following conditions exist:
| • | You are using Microsoft Exchange with the Internet Mail information
service.
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| • | You are using the client for Microsoft Exchange Server.
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| • | Your Internet service provider's mail server does not recognize the
content type of the Internet Mail message. |
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To work around this problem, send your mail using plain text format. To
do this on a per-message basis, follow these steps:
| 1. | While you are composing a new message, click Plain Text on the Format
menu.
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| 2. | Click OK if you receive a message stating that you will lose the
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) information in the message you are
composing. This message is displayed if you were previously using HTML
format instead of plain text format. |
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This problem typically occurs when you send mail using Internet Mail's
HTML format. Many mail servers do not recognize the Multipart/Alternative
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) content type. The IMS will only send Multipart/Alternative if the administrator checks both the HTML and the Plain Text check boxes. If you configure the IMS to only use HTML, it will send text/HTML.
There are two parts to an Internet Mail message: a text/plain part and a
text/HTML part. Multipart/Alternative content type includes multiple
representations of the same data.
When the server or client you use to read mail receives this MIME type,
the results may vary. Some clients display the text/plain part correctly
and put the text/HTML part into an attachment. Others put the entire
message into an attachment. The name of the attachment depends on your
server and client combination.
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