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Subject:Re: Deleting scripts from an Outlook message From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:19:49 -0800
If the HTML is larger than expected, can't you open it with a text
editor and see whatever is inflating the file?
Microsoft applications sometimes include proprietary tags that can
increase the size of an HTML file exponentially.
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Dan Goldstein
<DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> Even when the HTML messages are opened and saved as plain text messages,
> they're larger than expected.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Goldstein
>> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:29 AM
>> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> Subject: Deleting scripts from an Outlook message
>>
>> As has been noted here before, Outlook messages can be edited
>> after receipt, and they retain a record of their most recent
>> modification date -- which is a good thing, from an audit
>> trail perspective.
>>
>> I have e-mails of unusual size from a correspondent. I've
>> experimented with deleting their message content and saving
>> them, and they're still bigger than I'd expect. I assume that
>> there's some sort of benign script associated with the messages.
>>
>> The messages are part of my record of document change
>> requests, and I'd like to save them with their contents
>> intact (including formatting), but I don't need this hidden
>> script as part of that record.
>>
>> 1. How would I confirm that there is in fact such a script?
>> 2. How would I delete the script but retain the message contents?
>>
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