HTML Footers and Outlook/Word 2003?

[Gerard]

On Wed, 21 May 2008 19:54:00 +0200
Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:

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> Gerard wrote:
> | On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:31:33 +0200
> | Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
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> |> Paul Hutchings wrote:
> |> | I’m not sure if this is an Outlook/Word issue or something to do
> |> with my | html signature code or how MailScanner appends
> signatures, |> so I’ll start | here.
> |>
> |> Have you had one look at the messages your MTA is sending out? The
> |> HTML is ackward at best.
> |>
> |> There must be 50 ways to leave Microsoft. You just have shown
> reason |> number 501.
> |>
> |> But the obvious way is to start a packet capture and capture the
> |> outgoing messages before and after MailScanner and see what has
> |> changed exactly.
> |>
> |> But the fact that something reappears before it even is send to
> |> MailScanner pretty much rules out any change it was changed by
> |> MailScanner.
> |
> | Actually, I have no trouble at all understanding the HTML code. It
> | might appear awkward because it is sent in:
> |
> | Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> |
> | format. Sending it in 8-bit format would probably clear up that
> | problem.
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> That is not the issue. If you feed the output to a W3C parser it will
> tell you all about all the errors. Wether or not you think you can
> read it is not that relevant.
> 
> Hugo.

The only error is that if does not contain a character encoding. It
passes as 'tentative Transitional 4.01'. Simply add a character encoding
and it passes without a problem. I believe you are confusing this with
"Strict 4.01" encoding.


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