[plug] Blank messages

[Gavin Chester]

On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 17:47 +0800, Steve Boak wrote:
> On Sunday 23 July 2006 13:22, skribe wrote:
> > Hey folks:
> >
> > A friend of mine is having problems reading some of my emails.  He uses
> > both Outlook and Outlook Express (on different machines).  I use kmail.  He
> > can read with Express but not with Outlook.  Outlook shows my messages to
> > be blank.  Is there a setting either of us can use to remedy the problem?
> > Unfortunately he has to use Outlook at work.
> >
> 
> I remember having a similar problem a few months ago with kmail, and after a 
> lot of digging around for information, it turned out to be kmail chose the 
> wrong character encoding when replying to certain messages, and then Outlook 
> completely ignored the contents.
> 
> I think it was in [settings] [appearance] [message window tab] "fallback 
> character encoding" being set to some weird character set. And it 
> just 'happened', I don't think I changed anything to cause it. Mind you, I 
> could be wrong about that :-)
> 
> If your friend can (in Outlook) change the properties/character encoding of 
> the messages you sent, he should be able to read them.
> 
> Steve
> 
> > skribe

I also saw this problem a few years back when I was using LookOut as my
main mail client (shudder).  It wasn't just kmail, it seemed to affect a
lot of list mail that I was getting.  For me, the only way to see the
message was to click on 'reply' or 'forward' and then read the quoted
text.  Was really weird, and only seemed to happen for a while and jsut
seemed to go away, AFAIK.  Maybe add that suggestion to your list of
things for your friend to try :-)

Gavin