Oracle Connector for Outlook XP/2002 & HTML mail

From: Ruud vd Velden <ruudvdvelden_at_tilburguniversity.nl>
Date: 29 Jan 2004 07:20:23 -0800
Message-ID: <1f8a154f.0401290720.1bd42f92_at_posting.google.com>


Hello,

We're using Office XP on Windows 2000 SP4.

After installing the Oracle Connector for Outlook the following problem occurs:

Emails sent by Outlook, in HTML format, do have a strange format. The text/plain section of the message source is left empty. Therefore some mailclients cannot display the body, so recipients think they receive an empty message (address and subject fields appear normal by the way).

Below, an example of a part of the message source. As you kan see their is no text in the text/plain section.

  • BEGIN ************************
    <snip>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C3E67C.B41787C0 Content-Type: text/plain;

        charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C3E67C.B41787C0 Content-Type: text/html;

        charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE>

<snip, a lot of HTML tags and text>

size=3D2></FONT></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV></BODY></HTML>

------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C3E67C.B41787C0--

  • END ************************
I'm sure this is due to the installation of the Oracle Connector for Outlook. I did a lot of testing on several machines, with connector and without.

If an extra profile is created in Outlook 2002, with the same email account but WITHOUT the Oracle Connector for Outlook the problem does not occur, thus no essential files are overwritten by the installation.

Of course we would like to have one profile with a mail account AND the connector. We do NOT use the build-in option for IMAP and SMTP.

So we have one Outlook mail account (IMAP, SMTP) and one Oracle Connector account.

Oracle Connector version: R.9.0.4.1.11.51212

I would like to know if anyone else has/had the same problem and knows how to solve it ;)

Thanks in advance,

Ruud van der Velden
Tilburg University, NL Received on Thu Jan 29 2004 - 16:20:23 CET

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