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Sending Plain Text E-mail Messages

ISO 8859-1 or other character set

 

This is identified in the mail header under the Content-Type line similar to:

        Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

To correct this, change your default character set from ISO 8859-1 to US ASCII.

For Windows 95 do the following:

• In Control Panel, double-click Mail And Fax.
• Click Internet Mail, and then click Properties
• On the General tab, click Message Format, and then click Character Set.
• Change the option from ISO 8859-1 to US ASCII, or click the "Use MIME when sending messages" check box to clear it.

For Windows 98 this is controlled in Outlook and Outlook Express.

 

Original material courtesy of Gerald E. Boyd.