----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Arsenault, Ph.D." <[log in to unmask]>


> A friend is using Outlook Express set to send "text only". Her posts
> regularly contain gibberish that looks fine to her when she cc's herself.
> And it looks ok to some others. Many of us receive extraneous characters
as
> appear below. She is composing directly from Outlook Express, not pasting
> from another application.  Her headers read thus.
>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-7"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5
>
> +ACoAKgAqACo-MAJOR SPRING CE EVENTS+ACoAKgAq-
>
> 12 CE CREDITS IN TWO DAYS
> ----------------------
> Thanks,
> Ray
>
Ask here change encoding to something other than UTF-7.

To change charset ( in OE 6 i think tht  4.72 is similar )  select Tools ->
Options
menu, then Send tab and click Iternational Settings button. Change encoding
to
Western or if she needs many non-ascii charcters UTF-8. If here mailserver
or
some of recepients not supports 8bit e-mails she must ( recommended even
when
supported INHO) change from Plain Text Settings MIME format to Quoted
Printable

Toomas

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