all browsers mess up hotmail replies?

Mon Oct 10 21:29:07 UTC 2005

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:24:44PM -0400, sean wrote:
> On fc4 I've tried opera, firefox, mozilla with hotmail. All 
> show the mail correctly. But when I hit Reply To I get a 
> whole bunch of html stuff. For instance, to pick a piece of 
> spam:
> 
> 
> From:  <i>"Chang Feng" 
> <md_changfeng at msn.com></i><br>Subject: 
> <i>Representative Offer</i><br>Date:  <i>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 
> 02:41:50 +0100</i><br>
> <br>
> <html><head>
> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; 
> charset=windows-1252">
> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft SafeHTML">
> 
> 
> <style>
> </style>
> </head>
> <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
> <div><font face=Arial size=2>Dear Friend,<br>I am Mr Chang 
> Feng, a senior
> partner of a group of business men who deal on import and 
> export of raw
> ...........
> 
> 
> This classic spam shows correctly if I just view the 
> message. I've messed around with my Message Reply options in 
>  hotmail. No change.
> 
> Any suggestions.
> 
> sean
I think this is a hotmail problem not a browser problem. I can't check
this since my hotmail account is defunct but it sounds like the
hotmail reply function is not producing valid HTML headers.
But is just a guess. I will send you a gmail account and see if it has
the same problem. In most cases I would prefer gmail anyway.
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