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Conference chefs::ms-exchange

Title:	Microsoft Exchange Server
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Moderator:	FLASK2::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 17 1995
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Number of topics:	1099
Total number of notes:	5174

971.0. "Formating lost ???" by SAYER::ELMORE (Steve elmore@mail.dec.com 4123645893) Wed Apr 02 1997 01:13

    Perhaps this has been asked/answered elsewhere...I couldn't find it.
    
    I've discovered all the effort I spend formating my outgoing mail with
    the default editor is completely lost when received by mail systems
    other than MS Exchange.  What do I need to do to preserve the look of
    my mail when sent to these other systems?
    
    Thanks,
    Steve

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971.1 No simple answer- it depends on the recipient tunsrv2-tunnel.imc.das.dec.com::foster Stan Foster - foster@mail.dec.com Wed Apr 02 1997 03:56 14

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971.1	No simple answer- it depends on the recipient	tunsrv2-tunnel.imc.das.dec.com::foster	Stan Foster - foster@mail.dec.com	`Wed Apr 02 1997 03:56`	14
	It depends.. if the other system is MS Mail or Exchange then you can send rich text and preserve all the font information. If you know it is a terminal user, select a non proportional font like 10 point courier and size the window to wrap at 76 characters. This should be rendered the same on a terminal. In general if the recipient is a PC user the best strategy is to just type paragraphs and let the recipient's mail client re-wrap in the window. Even if you carefully crafted a message with a specific font etc you have no idea what the recipient has chosen or how they have sized their read window. The only way you can really preserve formatting (other than rich text) to another PC mail user is to create a document in Write or Word etc and mail that. Only then will the document attributes be preserved.

It depends.. if the other system is MS Mail or Exchange then you can 
send rich text and preserve all the font information. If you know it 
is a terminal user, select a non proportional font like 10 point 
courier and size the window to wrap at 76 characters. This should be 
rendered the same on a terminal.

In general if the recipient is a PC user the best strategy is to just 
type paragraphs and let the recipient's mail client re-wrap in the 
window. Even if you carefully crafted a message with a specific font 
etc you have no idea what the recipient has chosen or how they have 
sized their read window. The only way you can really preserve 
formatting (other than rich text) to another PC mail user is to 
create a document in Write or Word etc and mail that. Only then will 
the document attributes be preserved.