Outlook Express Cuts Emails

Black-BoxBlack-Box
edited March 2005 in Science & Tech
Hi all.
When I send a long message using outlook, I realize that my message is sent incomplete!
This happens only with lengthy messages.
I sometimes send a long message attached with a normal one, but this is not a good solution.
Can anyone show me how to avoid this?
Thanks.

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  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2005
    Send an example to this address: profdlp *at* gmail *dot* com (edit it for standard email address format - I'm trying to avoid the Spambots).

    It can be gibberish; just copy and paste a lengthy text into the body of the email.

    This might render a clue. :)
  • Black-BoxBlack-Box
    edited March 2005
    I've sent you a test message from firdous-at-i12-.-com
    Thanks for help..
    :)
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2005
    I'm sorry, but I can barely handle English. Arabic is quite beyond my capabilities. :D

    Send the email again. This time insert the English words "Top" "Middle" and "End" in the appropriate places in the text. That will give me some idea as to how much is getting cut off.

    From the little bit I could read, there was an error message at the bottom which seems to be related to a font. You mentioned that lengthy emails in English don't seem to have the problem, is there a different Arabic font you could try as a test? Try changing the font on one of the emails you know has the problem and see if it clears up. :)
  • Black-BoxBlack-Box
    edited March 2005
    Well, I don't think I need to send an English message since it works 100% fine.
    I used different fonts with the same result.
    I'll try to see what I can do tomorrow and tell you inshallah.
    I ]'m falling asleep now.
    By the way, can you tell me how I got converted here beyound my will?
    :scratch:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2005
    Black Box wrote:
    Well, I don't think I need to send an English message since it works 100% fine.
    What I meant was send me the exact same email (in Arabic) with the English words inserted at the top, middle and end. Since I can't read Arabic I have no way of telling what is being cut off.
    I used different fonts with the same result.
    Well...it was worth a try. :(
    I'll try to see what I can do tomorrow and tell you inshallah.
    I ]'m falling asleep now.
    By the way, can you tell me how I got converted here beyound my will?
    :scratch:
    :confused:

    I'll see what else I can think of. :)
  • Black-BoxBlack-Box
    edited March 2005
    :thumbsup:
    I think it's solved!


    1-
    I looked into the cut message source and found the following indication about it's coding,

    "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable"

    and then the body text in the message source looks like this,

    =E6=C3=E3=C7 =C5=E4 =DF=C7=E4 =C7=E1=E3=D8=E1=E6=C8 =E5=E6 =

    It's clear that every single Arabic letter is represented here by 3 characters in the message source, like "=C5" which stands for 1 Arabic letter.
    This would multiply the message size approximately by 3.
    Whether the size is the problem or not, I'm not sure.

    2-
    Then I went to the Outlook Express and from the menu (mine is Arabic and I'm trying to get the closest translation of the menu items),
    Tools> Options> sending> "HTML settings" button in the email section.
    Then, instead of "printable" I chose "base 64".

    I tested it and it worked fine!
    Now when I checked the source after this change, I found the following,

    Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

    And message body looks like this,

    DQotLS0tLSBPcmlnaW5hbCBNZXNzYWdlIC0tLS0tIA0KRnJvbTogYWJvdW1hciANClRvOiBzbiAN

    By what I mentioned about conversion I meant the little title put under my name "Short-Media Convert" but it's not worse than being an anarchist! :)
    It's a joke anyway!

    Thank you very much profdlp! You've made me think of coding and characters.
    chau
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2005
    Black Box wrote:
    :thumbsup:
    I think it's solved!...
    I'm glad to hear it. :D

    As for being a "Convert", if I'm not mistaken you can change that to whatever you want in the usercp. I hope you stick around and enjoy our website. :)
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