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  1. RocketsPimp

    RocketsPimp Member

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    Over the past few days I've received a few e-mails in ASCII format, but there is never anything to read. Could they be read receipts or is my e-mail reader not able to view them?

    BTW, I use Outlook.

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    Outlook or Outlook Express? Is this happening to every email or just emails from a certain person?

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    #2 keeley, Jun 25, 2001
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    Thanks for responding Keeley.

    I use Outlook, not Express. It's weird because it's not all e-mails. I thought they might be read responses, but I'm starting to second guess that because I've had two e-mails come from eBay that were completely blank.

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    I know more about Express than regular old Outlook.

    They could be coming in a font that you don't have installed. Beyond that, I don't really know what it could be. Maybe a re-install would fix it? That's never the best answer, but it might work.

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    You might try using a different email app....just to see if Outlook is doing some kinda weird filtering or something. Try something simple...freeware or shareware; that doesn't have HTML capability.

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    OK, I know that the e-mails are Rich Text format(is that the same as ASCII?) and they are coming in completely blank from people that I haven't talked to in months. I've forwarded them to a web based e-mail service and even reinstalled Outlook and they still aren't viewable. Any other suggestions??

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    Rich Text Format is not the same as ASCII. Do you have a respectable word processing program to open the email with? Might have to save it as one type and then change the extension to Rich Text Format.


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    Hey, thanks to you all for responding!

    Mango, I just tried that and it is still blank. I know that there should be something to see because a few of the e-mails are auto-responses from sites such as eBay and AccountTemps while others are from friends. Man, I used to be able to read these before my hard drive crash. Now that I have everything on a new drive, this problem occurs.

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    #8 RocketsPimp, Jun 27, 2001
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