Changing the "Domino Web Access" template to default to text formatted messages

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Hi,I’m desparately searching for a way to change the “Domino Web Access” template to default to text formatted messages, and yet at the same time allow users to choose HTML formatted messages if necessary.

Here’s the situation:

We have our existing 5.0.8 Domino server co-existing with a legacy system which doesn’t correctly render HTML formatted e-mail messages to the screen. As a result our web users have been using the ancient WebMail template which sent only Text. Soon we will be upgrading Domino to 6.5.1 and would like to take advantage of the new Domino Web Acecess template. I know that we can globally lock everyone down to use TEXT only (and at the same time not ever allow the use of HTML formatting). Likewise we can count on every individual user to change the format preferences in their mail files from HTML to TEXT (not likely). It would make many people happy if we could set all 1000 users to initially default to Text formatting but allow them to override that if they want to.

Otherwise what will happen is, even if we inform and educate everyone on how to change this setting individually. When we upgrade them and cut over to the new template, they’ll forget be sending HTML formatted mail to the old system and bad things happen.

thanks in advance for any feedback!

Aaron

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Subject: Changing the “Domino Web Access” template to default to text formatted messages

I guess you could use a differential analyzer, such as Teamstudio Delta, to figure out which field in the user’s mail file defines the mail format preference.

Then you might run an agent which sets the field to the appropriate value.

I haven’t done this myself yet. Just thought I’d share the idea.

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Subject: Changing the “Domino Web Access” template to default to text formatted messages

I was able to create an agent which sets the value of the field:MailMsgFmt

to “0”.

The field is located in the profile document of the mail file (or mail template).

The value of the field corresponds to the user preferences as follows:

“0” - Plain Text

“1” - HTML

“2” - Both Plain Text and HTML

“3” - Prompt