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[benesch@CEBAF.GOV]

        I have long wondered why many postings to the digest arrived 
festooned with = or =20 at the end of lines, didn't wrap properly, and 
were generally too much trouble to read.  This posting to the MacWay 
list, taken from another, unspecified list, explains how to remove the 
problem.  If you are using MS Exchange Mailer, and don't get DIGEST, 
check in the SAFETY archives to see how the rest of us see your posts.  

        Thank you. 

Jay Benesch
benesch@cebaf.gov



Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 13:47:03 -0400
From: MacWay@aol.com
To: macway@solutions.apple.com
Subject: Windows Email
Message-ID: <960703134701_230406239@emout08.mail.aol.com>

I just had to forward this post which came via a listserv discussion 
group, from the list owner, to all the Windows 95 users on the list.

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Thought it might be time to take up some bandwidth with a note to the 
WIN95 users on the list. Believe me, this will benefit all of the 
subscribers to this list, especially the people on Digest. The 
attachment, or some people see it as long uuencoding at the end of the 
post, is from a bug in the Microsoft Exchange Mailer in Win95. You will 
not see the problem but you will hear about it as it causes major 
problems on other mailers. 

Exchange uses MIME with it's "RICH TEXT" to compose messages with 
different colors and fonts. Blue is the default color when it composes 
new messages. Exchange sometimes decides to START telling the whole 
world 
this MUST be read as blue when it sends it out.Turning off the color 
doesn't help, it then sends out uuencoding or an attachment telling 
everyone" read this in black". If you have exchange then the posts just 
come in OK, not with an attachment. Exchange reads its own encoding just 
fine! 

It will sometimes also add an = sign and sometimes =20 at the end of 
each 
line. 

OK now the fix. First turn off the color,Click on TOOLS, OPTIONS and 
then 
on both READ and SEND click on FONT and set the color to auto.Then click 
OK and Apply. 

Next click each of the addresses in your address book and making sure 
the 
"rich text" box is not checked. If even one is on it will send them ALL 
in rich text. Add your own address to the address book with rich text 
not 
checked.Check it ON then OFF and click apply. 

Next click on TOOLS again,OPTIONS, SERVICES and set it to INTERNET MAIL, 
if you do not have it add it in. Click on PROPERTIES and in GENERAL 
click 
on MESSAGE FORMAT. If MIME is on take it off. Then to get rid of the = 
signs click on CHARACTER SET and switch ISO 8859-1 to US ASCII. If this 
one is already set, switch it to the first one and click OK, then go 
back 
and switch it again to get it to reset. Click on OK, OK, and apply. When 
it resets you will get a message that it will not take effect until then 
next time you open exchange. Close Exchange and reopen it. 

How to make sure the cure is working! 

Right click on the addresses on incoming messages and YOUR address on 
your posts that you get back from the lists. Bring up properties,see if 
rich text comes up checked. If not turn it ON and apply, then OFF and 
apply. It sometimes takes a couple of trys to get it to reset, So check 
several times to make sure rich text stays off. 

Despite all of this you MUST continue when you use "reply to sender" and 
"forward to" buttons to highlight and double click on the address on the 
new message and check properties to make sure rich text is turned off, 
IT 
WILL TURN on for these functions with a new address and sometimes even 
with one that was turned off before .Or use "compose new message" and 
copy and paste the parts of the post you want. 

Not as important, Exchange does not add in quote marks ( ) and some 
people get testy about that. If you want them you can go to this web 
sight and get a program to add to exchange that will put them in when 
asked. It still doesn't do it automaticly but is a lot eaisier than 
putting them in one at a time.The web sight also has lots of help for 
Win95 problems. 
<http://www.creativelement.com/win95ann/win95ann5.html#13>

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