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Outlook 2003-receiving e-mails.

Jun 9, 2005 10:36PM PDT

At times when we receive e-mail, it is displayed as attachments instead of in the message body. I checked all our settings. I do not have receive messages in plain text checked off.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Please clarify
Jun 9, 2005 11:55PM PDT
If we receive an e-mail, it is displayed as attachment

To what?

Kees
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text sent in attachment as image
Jun 10, 2005 6:24AM PDT

For instance when I email my husband something from my computer to his, when he received it, it had an attachment with gif and jpeg images and the text was not in the message body. I sent the exact email to someone else and it was received with the message in body like it should be.

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That's really strange.
Jun 10, 2005 8:11AM PDT

Let anyone of the 'good' receivers forward the message to both your computer and his computer to see what happens.
And let him also create a new comparable document and send that to both of you.

This little experiment might show if the problem is with your computer or with your husbands.

All I can think of, at the moment, is a repair (or an uninstall/uninstall) of Outlook via the setup on the Office cd.

Kees

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clean install
Jun 10, 2005 12:21PM PDT

Thanks for your input. It has to do with my husband's computer. We did new install...we had to reinstall all his programs. I didn't install it any different than what I installed on my computers. I receive messages okay. his is different. It's a mystery to me.