Email header question

From: Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.net.uk>
Date: Fri Dec 12 16:16:54 2003

My outlook express is 5.50.4807.1700 and everything looks fine here .

Geoff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 10:07 PM
Subject: OT: Email header question


> Hi all,
>
> In light of the recent thread about email headers, somebody may be able
> to help with this one.
>
> I don't normally have any problems with the emails that I send out;
> however one particular person who I send mail to complains that anything
> I send to him appears in a much larger (unbearably so) font than mail
> that he receives from anyone else. Maybe someone can have a look at the
> header on this message and see if there's anything obviously missing (it
> looks fine to me)
>
> FYI, a reply from him showed the following info about his client:
>
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200
>
> I suspect I send email to a good many people using the same client /
> version, so there's nothing odd about that.
>
> I'm using Evolution as a client on a linux box, with sendmail doing the
> address munging so that my reply address appears correctly, so that's a
> little atypical but not *that* odd.
>
> Anyone shed any light on what's going on? I would have said it was a
> problem with his client, if he'd been getting the same font problem
> elsewhere, but it seems like his version of Outlook doesn't like mail
> sent by Evolution for some reason...
>
> cheers
>
> Jules
Received on Fri Dec 12 2003 - 16:16:54 GMT