Comments on: Strip HTML email in Outlook into plain text

By: Zann

Zann — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:05:03 +0000

Hi,

I had/have a problem with Outlook 2003. I can’t work out how to solve it.

Outlook takes about 5 minutes to open any email with html formatting. Plain text emails are fine. However the twist is that once a html formatted email is open the rest open fine. It is a fresh(ish) copy of Outlook and the machine should have no problem. I am running Win XP Pro.

if you have any clues to what could help please email.

For now I have used your trick to set all email to plain text but this is only a work around. I would prefer to be able to open html emails.

cheers
Zann

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 03:22:47 +0000

It did exactly what it said on the box

it worked for me

thanks for this useful tip

By: Philipp

Philipp — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:07:20 +0000

Hi,

I tried the suggestion above to get rid of automatically downloaded pics in HTML mails. However, for me it doesn’t work.
I’m using Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Outlook 10, IE 6.0.
I created the DWORD ReadAsPlain and assigned it the value 1 exactly as explained above.
Has anobody suggestions what else I could try?

Cheers,
Phil

By: Maya

Maya — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:14:06 +0000

Thanks! This works for Office 2003 as well and works like a charm. Just replace the “Office/10″ in your code to “Office/11″ which denotes the new version, of course. Thanks!!

By: Brent

Brent — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:00:29 +0000

I like this tip. However, I wish there was a way to have a toggle in Outlook 2002 so that you can go back and forth between HTML and Plain text because I get some business e-mails that have some formating that makes the messages easier to understand.

Maybe someone knows of a way to have a toggle like Outlook Express does!

By: sniptools

sniptools — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:50:25 +0000

OS? Outlook version? What folder DO you have?

By: huh?

huh? — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:03:32 +0000

I don’t have a Mail subfolder under Options….

By: Gpo4

Gpo4 — Mon, 23 Feb 2004 05:30:06 +0000

nice...

By: Vinegar

Vinegar — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:48:34 +0000

For other email software here's an interesting website http://expita.com/nomime.html

By: sniptools

sniptools — Thu, 25 Dec 2003 20:17:41 +0000

Hi Chris,

I’ve tried Thunderbird and although it seems like a good attempt, it is far from being a serious contender for a serious email client.

It is very, very slow in comparison to Outlook, Eudora, Pocomail etc. There’s no archiving, which for me is absolutely critical because I carry a lot of email from the past 5 years or so, and cannot afford to have it in my main mbx. After just a couple of days playing around with it, you also realize that it is basically Netscape Mail with a new interface and is just not as configurable as Outlook or Eudora.

Interface-wise, I still have to see something that betters Outlook. Pocomail came close, IMHO, but I want my email software to look a lot simpler than that and they just don’t have an easy “skin” yet.

Just my 0.02. Glad you found this tip useful!

-Shanx