What do you mean with "an e-mail showing up in MIME format"?
Did you already contact the sender(s)? Ask them if there's any special thing and to resend it. Then - before downloading to Outlook - look to the mail in your webmail (or - if you don't have access to your mail account via webmail - ask them to send a copy to your free gmail or hotmail account and look at it there from your browser). How does it look there?
Kees
I've installed Offce 2003 from my old computer into Win 7 Pro 32bits, everything works well but some of the emails I receive show up in MIME format and I'm unable to read them.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem?, Outlook 2003 is configure exactly as it was on the other machine running Win XP Pro.
Thank you.

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