[lbo-talk] plain text in web-based Outlook

[Dwayne Monroe]

I'm very familiar with the Outlook Web Access client
(or OWA as it's known) of versions 5.5 and 2000 of
Microsoft's mail server platform -- Exchange.

As far as I know, there's no way, using the limited
interface OWA provides, to set outgoing mail to
default to plain text.  OWA is an active server page
shadow of the full Outlook "fat-client", hosted by
Microsoft Exchange, that uses an IIS web server for
presentation and authentication offering a user only
limited control.

I understand that Exchange 2003 -- or, more to the
point, the OWA interface Exchange 2003 provides --
gives the user a wider range of control options.  The
OWA 'look and feel' more closely mimics the full
featured Outlook client.  I haven't had a chance to
deploy and troubleshoot MSEXCH 2003 yet so I'm not
certain these claims are true.

In any event, I recommend reviewing the following
Microsoft documentation regarding customizing OWA:

Orig URL -

<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=6532E454-073E-4974-A800-1490A7CB358F
>

Condensed URL -

http://makeashorterlink.com/?M28E42F68

It may be that some tweak is available -- most likely
on the server end -- that your admin can apply to
default your messages to plain text.

.d.