Oriolus Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I'm using Outlook 2007 under Vista. I cannot remember whether it was as annoying when I ran Outlook 2003 under XP: Using the free reporting service, one should paste header and body in two different panes. To do this I'm being pestered in finding the right place to right-click in the body of an e-mail and find "Source of Message" (or what's it called in English?). In many cases (if not all) "Source of Message" is greyed out, whether or no it is an HTML-formatted e-mail. To be sure I click the Answer button and investigate the format of the e-mail that I am of course not going to send away. This however is a rather tiresome way of getting sure. I noticed some time ago that I couldn't find the right place to right-click in the body of an e-mail, and (erronuously, appeared afterwards) concluded that it was plain text, and sent the text that was shown, whereas there was HTML-code underneath really, as I noticed later, but I wasn't aware at the very moment. Does anyone know a quicker method to find out the format of a mail without right-clicking in vain or 'having to not-reply' to the spammer? TIA, Oriolus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turetzsr Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 <snip> Does anyone know a quicker method .... <snip> ...Please see My reply in thread "Reporting spam". ...Hope that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oriolus Posted June 27, 2007 Author Share Posted June 27, 2007 ...Please see My reply in thread "Reporting spam". ...Hope that helps! I imagine you wanted to point to the following paragraph with the two points: If the spam header shows "text/html": 1. Right click on the body of the spam, and choose 'View Source'. 2. This automatically opens the HTML code up in Notepad. spam header: This looks like it that this could be a help, but if I show you a random header, where the body is in html, there is neither a "text" nor "html" reference in it: Return-Path: <burl[at]iwon.com> Received: from mwinf6409.orange.nl (mwinf6409.orange.nl) by mwinb6006 (SMTP Server) with LMTP; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:11:21 +0200 X-Sieve: Server Sieve 2.2 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf6409.orange.nl (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id B70001C0008C for <wnl000000000000000647537424[at]back60-mail02-03.me-wanadoo.net>; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:11:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from xp-f13a11671c0b.vtr.net (pc-101-226-86-200.cm.vtr.net [200.86.226.101]) by mwinf6409.orange.nl (SMTP Server) with SMTP id AECE81C00085 for <...[at]...>; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:11:06 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20070627221110716.AECE81C00085[at]mwinf6409.orange.nl Message-ID: <001a01c7b8e6$8df8f340$048a4cb4[at]xpf13a11671c0b> From: Latonya <Burl[at]iwon.com> To: ...[at]... Subject: You may get your \/!agra right here! Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:11:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0017_01C7B8E6.8DF8F340" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Source of message (=html) <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>midterm elections to anti-war, anti-free trade <BR>Democrats, Bush sought to ease any doubts in the <BR>Korea's announcement on Oct. 31 that it was prepared <BR>at the National University of Singapore.<BR>the president will have during his eight-day,<BR> assured Asian leaders that the U.S. engagement of <BR> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><a href="http://mountcard.hk"><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:001a01c7b8e6$8df8f340$048a4cb4[at]xpf13a11671c0b" align=baseline border=0></a></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>midterm elections to anti-war, anti-free trade <BR>would hold North Korea fully accountable for the <BR>He said if North Korea chooses a peaceful path, <BR>weakened at home after his Republican Party lost <BR>Korea to states or non-state entities would be <BR>Bush said the United States will remain a reliable <BR>"The United States wants these talks to be successful, <BR>America and the other nations in the six-party talks <BR>program is atop the agenda in most of the meetings<BR>involving China, Japan, Russia, the two Koreas and the<BR>considered a grave threat to the United States and we <BR> </FONT></DIV> </BODY></HTML> As you can see, there is no "text/html" to be found in the header (in the body there is, but if you don't know there is html body, you won't find it ), so: In what way can I see it? Or didn't I get the paragraph you meant to point out to me? TIA, Oriolus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turetzsr Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 I imagine you wanted to point to the following paragraph with the two points:...Actually, no. More on this below ....<snip> spam header: This looks like it that this could be a help, but if I show you a random header, where the body is in html, there is neither a "text" nor "html" reference in it: <snip>Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0017_01C7B8E6.8DF8F340" <snip> ...The "Content-Type: multipart/related" says that there is more than one type in the body -- this is a clue that there might be HTML there. Or didn't I get the paragraph you meant to point out to me? TIA, Oriolus ...What I intended to point out was:<snip> ..You can use the e-mail option but you have to follow specific steps: ealesnj's instructions. Although not an answer to your specific question, it gets around the need to ask it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oriolus Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 ...Actually, no. More on this below .......The "Content-Type: multipart/related" says that there is more than one type in the body -- this is a clue that there might be HTML there. ...What I intended to point out was: Yes! This really helps: I found this in plain text bodies: Content-Type: text/plain; Thanks a lot for the clue! The site where I found the macro by Robert Sewell looks very attractive and time saving. I must study on it to get it working (a bit thrilling, I think...). But if it will work under Vista with Office 2007, is still an open question, so it seems. If anybody has good experiences with this macro in combination to Vista and 2007, I would be very obliged to be informed! Thanks anyhow for the tip to look in the header! Oriolus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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