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Question

Outlook 2003 in Win 7 Pro Email MIME format help

Jun 14, 2011 9:31AM PDT

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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Clarification Request
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Jun 15, 2011 6:16AM PDT

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

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I hope this helps
Jun 15, 2011 8:53AM PDT

Thank you for your help.
I mean by MIME format, the email has a header were it states it is MIME format, the following is part of the header

X-Originating-IP: [201.229.183.136] To: unlisted-recipients: ; (no To-header on input) Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V15.4.3508.1109 X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 15.4.3508.1109 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary_(ID_u27TLo1iT7UScblTWujD0w)" Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal

I've tried first to downloaded it to my old computer with Outlook 2003 and it came normal, it is not a problem of the sender, it is the same with more than one sender.

Both Office 2003 and Outlook 2003 are configured the same.

Raul.

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That's normal for a mail to have such a header.
Jun 16, 2011 6:10AM PDT
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Answer
Me too.
Jun 16, 2011 6:15AM PDT

My dad did something to his system and we're trying to figure it out. Everyone claims "we didn't touch nothin."

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Any clues?
Jun 20, 2011 2:03AM PDT

Did you find any clues on how to solve the problem yet?
Thank you

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The problem is with the sender.
Jun 21, 2011 7:37AM PDT

He's 2000 miles away and only one machine does it.

If we find out what it is, we'll post it.