Re: Important note about NoHTML and Outlook 2002
From: Nick FitzGerald (nick@VIRUS-L.DEMON.CO.UK)Date: 12/18/01
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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:05:54 +1200 From: Nick FitzGerald <nick@VIRUS-L.DEMON.CO.UK> To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
Russ wrote:
> Carrick Mundell <mundellc@exponent.com> was nice enough to point out;
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307594
>
> which is a KB article that describes how to get Outlook 2002/XP + SP1 to do
> exactly what NoHTML does, and more.
>
> If you're using Outlook 2002, then I definitely recommend you use this new
> feature in SP1 rather than NoHTML.
>
> Because its from Microsoft, they were able to overcome the problems I have
> in NoHTML with the Preview Pane...namely they prevent HTML messages from
> being rendered as HTML in the Preview Pane (unlike NoHTML, which can't do
> this).
And, because it's from Microsoft, they only did it half-a$$ed --
digitally signed and encrypted messages will *not* be affected by the
MS "ReadAs Plain". Reading the KB article carefully suggests some
interesting things about Outlook's internal message handling and
strongly suggests that this MS "fix" to a problem entirely of MS'
making is applied at the wrong point in the message handling code.
As is now quite common for many MS fixes...
> I must be getting old, or just too harried. I knew that Microsoft was going
> to include support for not viewing messages as HTML in Outlook 2002 (Outlook
> XP) SP1. I didn't know they had released SP1 already...oops.
I heard it was coming, but my source was uncertain as to where it
would first be released. Perhaps now MS has proven it can do
*something* about not rendering HTML, it will provide a fully
functional version in SP2? (More likely we will have to wait until
Outlook 2004 (??).
> What would be great is if Microsoft released a patch for Outlook 98, Outlook
> 2000, and Outlook Express that allows the same functionality across all of
> them.
Absolutely.
Despite this not being a fully adequate implementation, it is
certainly "good enough for now".
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