Mail Issue

[Mac In School]

My partner just asked me this:

Do you know why some of your email messages contain a ".?" after each sentence and some don't?

My response: Is that happening again? A reboot fixed it last time. I'll reboot again.

Him: You have to reboot a Mac?

Any ideas what's going on? I'm sending from Mail, he's receiving in Outlook... Outlook XP, I think.

 

[Mac In School]

He just sent me a screencap. Looks like it's after each sentence. Have a look.

 

[MisterMe]

He just sent me a screencap. Looks like it's after each sentence. Have a look.

OK. That is all good and fine, but for a valid diagnosis, you should include the message as you sent it to your partner. BTW, Mail does not add periods or question marks to sentences.

 

[WildCowboy]

Have a look at this article.

 

[Mac In School]

Update...

Rebooting the computer fixed it. I have no idea why, but it did. I followed the exact same steps, replying to the exact same person after the reboot, and the question marks were gone.

OK. That is all good and fine, but for a valid diagnosis, you should include the message as you sent it to your partner.

I understand. Unfortunately, for security reasons, I can't really post any more than I already did. No way I can include a full header.

Thanks for the link WildCowboy. Any idea if this can be set as a preference, so I don't have to manually set it for every message? I poked around in Mail's preferences, but couldn't find anything.

Thanks.

 

[MisterMe]

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I understand. Unfortunately, for security reasons, I can't really post any more than I already did. No way I can include a full header.

I am happy that you have solved your problem, at least partially. BTW, I was not asking you for your headings. I was asking for a screenshot of what you sent with no more information that the screenshot of what your partner received.

.... Any idea if this can be set as a preference, so I don't have to manually set it for every message? I poked around in Mail's preferences, but couldn't find anything.

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Click Mail > Preferences....

Click the Composing tab.

Select Composing: Message Format: Plain Text popup menu item.

Check Responding [ ] Use the same message format as the original message.

 

[Mac In School]

Yeah, I found that one. Any way to set them all to "Unicode (utf-8)"?