On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:31:08PM +1100, Peter Shute wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > The default for MS Outlook seems to be HTML rather than Rich Text. > > > > What Outlook, Hotmail etc. call "Rich Text" is in fact HTML, > > not to be confused with Microsoft's interchange Rich Text Format, RTF. > > Outlook offers Plain text, HTML and Rich text as formatting options, > so I assume the Rich text they're talking about might actually be RTF.
I understand that Outlook's Rich Text Format is actually the old win.dat format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Neutral_Encapsulation_Format Recent versions of Outlook apparently automatically convert "Rich Text" to HTML when you send to "an Internet recipient" (I assume that means a non-local user when using Exchange), which might explain why selecting Rich Text in Outlook appears to send HTML, and why win.dat attachments are now so rare. I don't think I've seen one in the wild for a decade or more. https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Change-the-message-format-to-HTML-Rich-Text-or-plain-text-de2acb3d-3330-42a1-b02a-5f582fc6e796 If anyone cares enough to look for email sent from Outlook, you can probably determine for yourself what it is sending by inspecting the MIME type of the attachments, or looking at the raw content of the email. If you see lots of formatting commands inside angle brackets < ... > it's probably HTML, if they are inside braces { ... } (but they won't be ;-) it's probably the Microsoft RTF exchange format, and if you see a win.dat or winmail.dat attachment it will be "Outlook Rich Text". -- Steve ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org