OT: Exchange strips formatting off of messages via IMAP

[Bryan O'Neal]

I have never seen this as a default and I have been administrating
exchange servers for a very long time. That said there are ways you
can make exchange do this. It is a performance option but to the best
of my memory it is not a user option - your exchange administrator
will have to fix it for you.

If you are the administrator please let us know what version of
exchange (2000, 2003, 2008 is fin we don't need exchange 5.5.01C or
any thing) and we can help guild you through.

BTW exchange server admin question are better asked on the Windows
Admin Group [WAGIT at googlegroups.com]
http://groups.google.com/group/WAGIT?hl=en

It is a very low traffic group with the majority of traffic (once or
twice a month) from one girl who uses it to promote her windows admin
blog.  But we do have a few dozen linux centric windows admin over
there and it keep people from screening how this is a linux group ;).


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Kurt Granroth
<kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com> wrote:
> I need to connect to an Exchange server for email at work but, having a
> Linux desktop, I do so via IMAP using Thunderbird (or KMail and, every so
> often, Evolution).  This works mostly okay.  The one part that doesn't work
> is that the IMAP server part of Exchange completely strips off all
> formatting in the messages.
>
> Now this is fine 90% of the time but every so often, a message will have
> very specific formatting for a specific reason (passages highlighted,
> tables, formatted code, etc). That message will look fine in Outlook but
> will be stripped down to plain-text when viewed via IMAP.
>
> This is *not* Thunderbird.  I've verified that it's the IMAP server by doing
> a quick telnet to 443 and seeing the raw output.
>
> My question (and what makes this OT) is this: is there any way to configure
> the Exchange IMAP server to not strip off formatting?  If so, I may be able
> to suggest that our admins do whatever steps are necessary.
>
> Any ideas?
> Kurt
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