CCS Background for Lotus Notes

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We have a client that sends us e-mails from an Exchange server and uses CCS style for the background images. When we view this in our lotus clients the e-mails are un-readable. the background streaks across the whole e-mail. Is there a way to fix this on the client or domino side.

thanks

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Subject: CCS Background for Lotus Notes

Well I have this problem also with some people who used Outlook people and had fancy signatures. Notes 7 ( and I guess 5.x, and 6.x) don’t always render some MIME properly. Personally I think Outlook is putting out a malformed MIME message :).

Anyway the good news is this issue seems to be fixed in Notes 8 Beta 3 (I just checked a few messages that rendered improperly, such as a mime message with a single embedded graphic which rendered tiled across the screen making the text unreadable). However if you’re not going to move to Notes 8 anytime soon the following couple of tricks helped me.

  1. I would simply reply using internet style history so I could read the message (even though I’m not sending the message). That strips all formatting and you can at least read the text. It also strips the attachments too. When I’m done I would just cancel it. Yeah I know…but it works :slight_smile:

  2. I got tired of doing #1 so I wrote a small agent that did the following:

FIELD Body2 := Body;

FIELD Body := Body2;

And executed it on the selected message. That effectively converts it from MIME to Rich Text. Attachments are preserved. Simple and effective, albeit probably not elegant- but hey it works :slight_smile:

Mike