To unset the 8-bit option in Outlook Express, go to Tools ... Options
... then click on the Send tab.  In the "Mail sending format", click on
each of the buttons - HTML Settings and Plain Text Settings and make
sure the "Allow 8-bit characters in headers" box is unchecked in both.

----- Original Message -----
From: Toomas Piibe <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Unreadable message (was: XX message in OE reply)


Date sent:              Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:49:41 -0600
Send reply to:          PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion
list <[log in to unmask]>
From:                   Earl Truss <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:                Re: [PCSOFT] Unreadable message (was: XX message
in OE reply)
To:                     [log in to unmask]

Normal Content-Type header is

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

But

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

is wonrg. Sometims it works, but when recepent is far away theare
is may servers between sender and recepient and som of them
supports only 7bit mails.

Correct heaser field must be

   Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable
or
   Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

Somwere in your OE options you must disable 8bit MIME support.


> This may be a clue but I'm not sure what to do about it.  When I got
> your message, it was unreadable garbage with lots of smiley faces and
> blank boxes and paragraph marks and nothing else.  When I hit Reply, I
> was then able to see the text of your message.
>
> You also have the following in the header of your message:
>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> while "normal" messages have the following in their headers:
>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
> Perhaps someone else can figure it out from this?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charlie <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 11:28 PM
> Subject: [PCSOFT] ÿþ message in OE reply
>
>
> > ÿþ
> >
> > Anyone have any idea why I send that message in OE when I hit reply?
> > If the person is overseas, that is usually all they get.  None of my
> > typed message.
> >

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